In October 2025, it was announced that lawyer Victor Alvarez Puga, husband of television presenter Ines Gomez Mont, was detained in the United States by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (ICE) and transferred to the Krome North SPC Processing and Services Center in Miami after failing to provide his legal status in the country. While his arrest was unrelated to the charges against him in Mexico for his alleged involvement in embezzlement, organized crime, and money laundering, the lawyer remains in custody awaiting a resolution. Meanwhile, Mexican authorities, led by the Attorney General's Office (FGR), revealed that they have requested the extradition of the television presenter's husband. The announcement was made by Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who shared details of the case with the press after both he and Ines Gomez Mont were declared fugitives from justice. "The extradition is being requested. He is detained, that's the information we received. Now that Ernestina Godoy is in charge of the Attorney General's Office, we are..." "We will ask what can be investigated in this case," the mayor said in his usual morning press conference. In the same interview, she detailed that there will be no impunity in this case, adding that they will go to the very end. “We are very interested in ensuring there is no impunity in this, so let the Attorney General's Office provide information,” Sheinbaum concluded on this matter. Why hasn't he been deported and what is his situation in the United States? El Pais reported that Alvarez Puga remains detained in the United States because his legal team managed to delay his immigration deportation, as they are awaiting his preliminary hearing. According to court documents shared by Imagen Television, the businessman also entered the United States with a tourist visa on January 14, 2021, and remained there until July 9, that is, a few days before the deadline for Mexican tourists to leave the United States.

The same documents detail that the litigant traveled to the Bahamas by plane and the following day attempted to re-enter the United States, but no longer as a tourist, but as a political asylee,claiming that he and his family were victims of political persecution by the Mexican government due to their political preferences.

Despite his asylum application, it is still pending approval and under review, so at the time of his arrest he did not have any document to support the reasons why he remained in the United States without a valid visa.