Nevada’s Latino voters could play a pivotal role in the outcome of Tuesday’s election, and underlying much of the engagement is anxiety that their situation in the U.S. has deteriorated over the past year. They have expressed having more interest in the 2018 elections compared to past midterms, and a record 29.1 million Hispanics are eligible to vote — an increase of 4 million since 2014.

From surveys and speeches to non-stop ads and campaign promises, it’s clear candidates are courting Latinos ahead of Tuesday’s general election. But what lies beyond the numbers? What’s pushing voters toward the Democratic or Republican parties?

You might see their representatives at community events, clipboards in hand. They’re organizations that focus on building a bridge between Latino immigrants and the social, political and financial structures of the U.S. that are often unfamiliar to those who have just arrived to the so-called land of opportunity.

You might see their representatives at community events, clipboards in hand. They’re organizations that focus on building a bridge between Latino immigrants and the social, political and financial structures of the U.S. that are often unfamiliar to those who have just arrived to the so-called land of opportunity.

Redda Merahi came from Ethiopia as a refugee and now runs a center for other refugees in Las Vegas. But the country could be seeing fewer people like him going forward. President Donald Trump’s administration will reduce the number of refugees who may enter the U.S. in the new fiscal year to the lowest number since the program was established in 1980.

San Francisco-based federal District Judge Edward Chen issued an injunction Wednesday that blocks an order from the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti and El Salvador. It’s welcome news — if not a permanent resolution — for people who have been living legally in the U.S. for sometimes decades but would otherwise be forced to leave in the coming months.

Lyon County sheriff’s officials said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents joined them on unannounced visits to the county’s legal brothels on Wednesday afternoon, but the stops were educational and did not lead to arrests or citations.

Sleepless nights. Days trying hard to move forward. Dreams yet to be fulfilled. This is how Marcela remembers the 365 days that have passed since the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Cooking is a kind of therapy Marta uses to cope with her experience on Oct. 1, when she was working to clean bathrooms at a country music festival and started to hear the sound of gunfire.

A single mother from Guatemala who was detained in Nevada and was separated from her 5-year-old daughter for four months because of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy has been reunited with her child, although both are now being held in a family detention center in Texas, and they don’t know when they will leave.

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.