The fate of thousands of Nevadans and hundreds of thousands of people around the nation hung in the balance Tuesday when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Currently, there is a 30-day deadline for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to review asylum-seekers’ work permit applications. Under the new proposed rule, the waiting period could grow to an indefinite amount of time before asylum seekers are able to work.

A roundtable in Las Vegas on Tuesday brought students, administrators and presidents together to discuss how Nevada’s colleges and universities can support their DACA and undocumented students.

The Trump administration on Monday announced a one-year extension on work permits for thousands of Salvadorans covered by the Temporary Protected Status program — a development that prompted celebration but also fell far short of what Nevada TPS recipients are seeking.

Questions still remain about the ramifications of the decision throughout the state. ICE’s deputy field office director in Las Vegas, Dana L. Fishburn, argued that severing the tie “will make Clark County residents less safe.”

Metro noted the court decision is likely to be appealed and that the agency will “continue to work with ICE at the Clark County Detention Center in removing persons without legal status who have committed violent crimes.”

Detainers are requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for jails to keep people behind bars for longer than they otherwise would be held for the underlying local charges that triggered their arrest. The hold gives ICE agents a change to take custody of the person in a controlled environment and transfer them to immigration detention and await deportation proceedings.

15 members appointed by the Clark County Commissioners were inaugurated to the AAPI Community Commission to make. recommendations to the Board to and plan development of a cultural center

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officials held a public briefing on Tuesday to present updated statistics about the department’s agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but activists said they left frustrated when a meeting scheduled to last two hours ended in less than 10 minutes.

Being denied college admission, scholarships, certain jobs and health insurance are some of the things DREAMers worry about as the Senate deliberates whether to pass the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019. Without a clean DREAM Act, Nevada recipients and their 4,600 children worry that simply driving to work or to the grocery store could lead to their deportation.

Following an earlier speech Sanders gave on his housing plan, the town hall at UNLV dove into some of the Latino community’s most pressing issues — racial profiling of Hispanics in the El Paso shooting, immigration, criminal justice reform and foreign policy.

Nevadans celebrated Mexican Independence Day this year by hosting local festivities in Reno and Las Vegas. Latino performing artists including Mana, Gloria Trevi, and Enrique Iglesias, among others, scheduled performances in Las Vegas for the celebratory weekend, with ticket prices ranging from $100-$1,000. 

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.