In an English interview Friday with The Nevada Independent En Español, Lee said she believes ICE is operating in a broken immigration system that demands comprehensive, bipartisan reform. She also discussed her recent trip to the U.S.-Mexico border and what she believes may have been “whitewashing” of the situation before a bipartisan delegation from Congress arrived. 

Delays in the receipt of key documents they need to keep their jobs or to apply for scholarships, and a lack of resources to process the renewal of their immigration protection status, are just some of the obstacles the beneficiaries of DACA have encountered since the cancellation in 2017.

The Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the Remain in Mexico policy, keeps immigrants who are seeking asylum in the U.S. in Mexico until their court hearings. The waiting period for asylum seekers leaves them in dangerous cities on the Mexican side of the border, opponents say.

Escobedo has been denied schooling, kept away from his ailing mother and even jailed over questions about whether he was born north or south of the Rio Grande. 

Ford announced Monday that he was joining a coalition of 20 states opposing a proposed rule that would replace the Flores agreement, a settlement in place since 1997 that sets standards for detention conditions and generally prevents children from being detained longer than 20 days. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Central California, argues longer stays would cause irreparable harm to children and their families.

The analysis of government and proprietary data was commissioned by RapidVisa, a Las Vegas-based online visa processing service, and released on Thursday. Company founder Ben Ives said that although there’s been much public discussion about changing family-oriented immigration, often referred to pejoratively as chain migration, actual changes have been less pronounced.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Monday urged the Department of Homeland Security to quickly correct an inaccuracy with its immigrant-status verification system that is keeping up to 6,000 Nevadans who are in the country legally from getting their driver's license.

A final public charge rule would deny green cards to applicants who use food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, housing subsidies, Supplemental Security Income (SSI, for people with disabilities), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other types of public assistance for an aggregate of 12 months within a 36-month period. Using two programs for a month counts as two months.

DMV spokesman Kevin Malone said in an email Thursday that the problem is affecting TPS recipients from multiple countries and is playing out at licensing agencies across the U.S., although he did not have statistics on how many people have been affected so far.

Mexican immigrant Adriana Arellano Cruz had her $5,000 bond posted by the ¡Arriba! Las Vegas Workers Center, an immigrant advocacy group, on Tuesday, and has been reunited her with her three American citizen children. 

More immigration judges, legal aid and attorneys are needed to quicken the pace of processing families and unaccompanied minors who illegally cross the border, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said after visiting the Estrella del Norte migrant shelter in Tucson, Arizona.

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks to a large crowd of potential voters during a June campaign stop at the Doolittle Community Center in Las Vegas. 

A Las Vegas mother's scheduled deportation has been delayed by six months, but her three children are speaking out on her behalf while she remains in custody and her lawyer is trying to get her out of detention as soon as possible.

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.