Cases were routinely closed by judges at the end of the Obama administration if the defendant didn’t have a criminal background and had deep ties in the country, such as U.S. citizen children, or had become eligible for a work permit. This spring, Sessions revoked judges’ authority to carry out the practice, which was aimed at making room for more urgent cases.

Ruby Flores González was scheduled to give birth on Saturday, but the baby’s father was expected to miss the big moment — Jorge Franco is in the Henderson Detention Center and is at risk of being deported for unpaid traffic tickets.

Ramsey said the government will be responsible for the expense of bringing the girl and her uncle from Florida to a detention center in Dilley, Texas, where they will be reunified with the mother. “The child will literally go from holding her Uncle's hand to holding Olivia's hand,” he said via email.

“Sometimes you feel very proud and you say, ‘yes, I’m important to this country, they’re trying to do something for me’ and the next day they say ‘there isn’t a solution again’ … this is a rollercoaster of emotions.”

Olivia Aguilar-Bamaca’s lawyer is also questioning the government’s assertion that his client is the only person out of 203 in the country who didn’t waive their right to reunification but still remain separated from their children.

A single mother from Guatemala who’s being held in the Henderson Detention Center is among a group of people who still remain separated from their children as a result of the Trump administration’s now-defunct zero tolerance policy, and she’s fighting to see her daughter again before she’s deported.

The protesters who stood just feet away from tourists posing for photos were part of a nationwide bus tour that started last week and is advocating on behalf of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries who are on the brink of losing their legal status.

Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto says she supports an eventual move to a “Medicare-for-All” universal health insurance program, but that moving to a federally run universal health insurance model wasn’t immediately plausible.

Prior to going on a weeklong recess, the Senate approved a $154 billion spending package for the Departments of Interior, Treasury, Agriculture, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency.

The House, just before going on its August recess, approved a compromise defense authorization bill, which included no money for putting nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, while the Senate inched closer to passing a spending package that included funds to help people prepare their tax forms.

Las Vegas attorney Laura Barrera said the man and his daughter were reunified in the middle of the night and she was able to talk with them Thursday after flying to Texas on Wednesday to try to help him. She said he’s not in detention and is under an order of supervision, but declined to give specifics about his whereabouts or identity.

Undocumented detainees are being held in Southern Nevada as a result of President Donald Trump’s now-suspended policy that resulted in children being separated from their parents who illegally cross the border, according to Republican Sen. Dean Heller.

According to a poll of voters in 61 swing congressional districts across the nation commissioned by immigration activists, 73 percent of voters said they were “very angry” or “somewhat angry” about separating undocumented children from their families.

After living as a DREAMer in Las Vegas for 11 years, Ariel T Rodriguez left behind his job as a waiter, his car and his classes at UNLV, where he graduated with a journalism degree. decided along with his family to return to his native Mexico City amid the Trump administration’s widespread changes to immigration policies. He recently spoke with The Nevada Independent about his emotions and experiences as a DREAMer both inside the United States and abroad.

Across a foot bridge is Texas; so close yet so far for a group of three Mexicans who tried to cross into the United States but ended up being deported. What awaits people like them as they head back home? Why do some choose to live in a perpetual cycle of paying a coyote, crossing, being deported, and then starting all over again?

What began as a friendship between two firefighters from different countries led to the donation of a fire truck from North Las Vegas to a city in the central Mexican state of Michoacan, where a group of volunteer firefighters battle not only fires but lack resources to carry out their duty.

"Something beautiful happens when you go to another nation and embrace it as yours. The country adopts you, but you must adopt it as well," said U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Gordon, later adding that it is the duty of all citizens "to preserve the values ​​of this nation and even make them better."

Before heading out to kiss babies and light sparklers on their Independence Day recess, Nevada’s delegation helped pass legislation to fund the military and advanced a spending measure, which did not fund the Energy Department’s move to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.