The new rule, which is set to take effect on Tuesday, makes people ineligible for asylum at the southern border of the U.S. if they have passed through another country first without applying for protection there. That would cover Central American migrants who travel through Mexico before arriving at the U.S. but don’t seek asylum from Mexico.

For many Americans, the Fourth of July brings another year of family get-togethers and loud fireworks. But for the 46 Southern Nevada residents who sat in the Las Vegas federal court’s Jury Assembly Hall in mid-June, the holiday marks their first Independence Day as new citizens — and often, the culmination of a difficult road. 

Her visit came after numerous reports of unsanitary conditions in immigrant detention camps from members of Congress and other accounts of abusive treatment by Border Patrol officers in the detention centers. The reports attracted broad condemnation this week, triggering “Close the Camps” protests in cities across the country on Tuesday.

Immigrant advocates in Nevada and elsewhere in the country have called for an end to the agreements when they expire June 30, arguing that they expend local resources on federal priorities, erode trust between immigrant communities and local law enforcement and trigger deportation proceedings against people with low-level offenses.

The award wasn’t without controversy, with lawmakers asking at an Interim Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday whether the grant was singling out Latinos as vulnerable to gang activity, and staff from the attorney general’s office stressing that they did not want to promote a narrative that unaccompanied minors who are seeking asylum and are largely from Central America are gang members.

Wooden pews and the modest altar of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in North Las Vegas provided the backdrop for a forum aimed at educating the public what to do if mass arrests and deportations announced earlier this month by President Donald Trump come to pass.

The Latino vote in Nevada presents an opportunity for everyone in the crowded field of Democrats seeking to be the party’s 2020 presidential nominee, but none of the candidates running has an edge and they all must do more than criticize the president, U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said Monday.

Senate Democrats this week introduced a measure that seeks to ensure that federally sponsored agencies do not deny mortgage loans to beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

A lack of understanding within both parties on issues surrounding immigration and concerns that they could affect lawmakers’ political futures played a decisive role in the fate of some bills during the Legislature, a key proponent of the measures argued in an exclusive interview.

The 287(g) program is an agreement between local law enforcement and federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to work together, such that local law enforcement officers play a role in enforcing federal immigration law.

The House last week passed Democratic-drafted legislation to provide a path to citizenship for those brought to the country illegally as children as well as those in the U.S. under certain refugee programs that President Donald Trump has pushed to end.

In a letter in late May to L. Francis Cissna, head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen said that waiting times at local offices have exceeded an acceptable length.

The 54-year-old Los Angeles woman, who asked to be identified by the pseudonym Elsa Colores, spent a combined three days behind bars — first at the detention center and then at an ICE-run facility in Pahrump — before being released on $2,500 bail. She’s now awaiting court date set for July 9 in Las Vegas.

Torres said it was amended in the Senate on Friday at her request to remove almost all of the bill, except for a portion that requires officers in a jail to tell a person why they are being questioned about their immigration status.

A bill that proposes a state agency to help immigrants better adjust to American life brought two sides head to head — those who want a state more accommodating to immigrants and those who think that serving the undocumented is rewarding people who break laws.

The Nevada Independent’s analysis of documents obtained through a public records request shows that from January through mid-September 2018, there were 138 instances in which ICE requested either the Henderson or city of Las Vegas jail place an immigration hold on someone who was booked for no charges more serious than a traffic offense.

Local jails play a significant role in apprehending undocumented immigrants and transferring them to immigration authorities for deportation proceedings. Here's how the process works.

The need-based Nevada Promise Scholarship requires students to fill out the FAFSA and seek out federal aid before the state funds kick in. That can be daunting for undocumented students who don’t have a Social Security number and don’t want to reveal too much information to a federal government that also has the power to enforce immigration laws against them.