Henderson police rejected a proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) training site at a meeting Tuesday, saying the proposal violated existing agreements. 

At the joint meeting between the Henderson Police Department and the City of Henderson, the police chief struck the meeting agenda's item that could have eventually allowed ICE to significantly expand its presence at the Eldorado Valley Regional Training Facility — a training range for Southern Nevada law enforcement agencies operated by Henderson and Boulder City.

Henderson Police Department Chief Reggie Rader, who heads the committee overseeing the training facility, pulled the item after saying it was not properly "vetted" and that it was not permitted under an existing governing agreement between Henderson and Boulder City. 

"The proposed item cannot and will not move forward under the existing agreement, and the matter will not be further considered or contemplated under that agreement," Rader said during the meeting. 

The City of Henderson did not say when ICE sent the inquiry but reiterated that it was not permitted. Boulder City did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

About a dozen people showed up to testify against the proposal on Tuesday afternoon, including a representative from the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada. 

City documents indicate that ICE has used the Eldorado Valley Regional Training Facility for years but the proposal would have expanded its use. Under its proposed plan, ICE would develop "shared on site training locations" at the facility and rent it out to other agencies when it wasn't in use, according to an agenda document posted online.

"We will continue tracking this item as we do believe that the community deserves the opportunity to give meaningful input into things that are happening directly in our community that are impacting people who live here," Kaylah Maese, the policy manager for the ACLU of Nevada, said during the meeting.

The proposal comes months after Henderson said it was reconsidering its contract with the U.S Marshals Service to house ICE detainees at its local jail, citing local backlash and financial uncertainty. The city has yet to publicly announce any decision it has regarding its ICE contract since then. 

Such agreements with local training complexes have sparked backlash nationwide. In February, an agreement between ICE and the Southern California town of Escondido made national news after it was revealed that ICE agents trained at a local police department firing range for more than a decade, prompting weeks of protests. 

Like the Eldorado Valley Regional Training Facility, the Escondido Police Department leased the space to several local and federal agencies for training purposes, including Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a special subsection of ICE focused on transnational crime. 

In 2025, ICE's use of the Eldorado range represented 3 percent of its total use, while HSI's represented about 7 percent. The facility is also used by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Nevada Legislative Police.