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March 18, 2024

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Man convicted of running Las Vegas-based immigration scam
April 20, 2022
A federal jury Tuesday convicted an Arizona man of running a fraudulent immigration scheme obtaining more than $1 million dollars from his clients by promising them U.S. citizenship through adult adoption, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
“We Need to Talk” host Claytee White, director of the UNLV Oral History Research Center, is shown in a February 18, 2021 file photo.
UNLV 'We Need To Talk' series’ focus shines light on Las Vegas’ eastside
April 19, 2022
Before Nathalie Martinez graduated from UNLV in 2021, she worked as a student oral historian for the Latinx Voices Project, collecting oral ...
Erika Marquez, 34-year-old DACA recipient, poses for a portrait in a local park Tuesday Feb. 8, 2022. At 34 weeks into her pregnancy, she and her family worry about the high cost of medical expenses while not being able to qualify for Medicaid.
For undocumented immigrants in Nevada, health care options are limited
Feb. 27, 2022
Erika Marquez is 35 weeks pregnant with her third child, a daughter who will be delivered by cesarean section next month. But the joys of preparing to welcome her child are often replaced with worries ....
The food court dining area is shown in El Mercado, a shopping and dining area inside the Boulevard mall, Thursday, Feb.17, 2022.
Hispanic culture explodes throughout the many shops in Boulevard mall’s El Mercado
Feb. 22, 2022
Take one walk through El Mercado, which occupies the mall space where JCPenney was housed, and you get the sense you are shopping in a street market ...
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo speaks June 28, 2021, at a news conference in Las Vegas announcing his candidacy for governor. Since launching his bid, Lombardo has bragged that more than 10,000 undocumented persons had been deported under his leadership. That figure doesn’t square, however, with what he said in 2016 when he told the Sun that most immigrants arrested by Metro were released back into the community.
Lombardo takes right turn on immigration in his bid for GOP gubernatorial nod
Oct. 20, 2021
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo has changed his tune on immigration now that he is running for governor. Lombardo, who for years has downplayed Metro Police’s role in immigration policies and deportations, boasted at a recent campaign event to Republican voters …
Cecilia Gomez, left, and her Laura Barrera, an attorney with the UNLV Immigration Clinic, head into the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Gomez was nearly deported in March while applying for a green card.
UNLV clinic gets windfall to assist immigrants facing deportation
Sept. 22, 2021
UNLV’s Immigration Clinic at William S. Boyd School of Law will add a half-million dollars to its coffers to defend immigrants facing deportation ...
Haitian migrants gather on the banks of the Rio Grande after they crossed into the United States from Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is nearing a final plan to expel many of the thousands of Haitian migrants who have suddenly crossed into the Texas border city from Mexico and to fly them back to their Caribbean homeland.
US closes part of Texas border, begins flying Haitians home
Sept. 19, 2021
The United States on Sunday blocked the Mexican border at an isolated Texas town where thousands of Haitian refugees have crossed and set up a camp, hoping to stop the flow of migrants as officials also began flying some of the Haitians back …
Ashley Vazquez Romo, a Basic High School rising senior, poses in front of a Bank of America branch on West Charleston Boulevard Friday, July 16, 2021. Romo is one of four Nevada students selected in the Bank of America Student Leaders Program.
Basic Academy student has bold vision for her future, and is putting in the work to get there
July 26, 2021
Ashley Vazquez Romo wants to be a judge or a surgeon. Either way, she says, she’d be saving lives. First, she’ll have to graduate from high school. Vazquez Romo, 17, is headed into her senior year at ...
LaLo Montoya, an organizer with Make the Road Nevada, speaks during a "Citizenship For All" rally in front of the Foley Federal Building in downtown Las Vegas Friday, July 2, 2021. Montoya is among a chorus of critics taking aim at a federal court judge’s ruling last week that pulled the rug out from immigrants seeking legal status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
'We need citizenship': Young Las Vegas immigrants lament judge's DACA ruling
July 21, 2021
Make the Road Nevada housing organizer LaLo Montoya was only 2 years old when his family immigrated to the United States from Zacatecas, Mexico. It wasn’t until 2012 that Montoya would be protected from deportation through the DACA program ...
Erika Castro, a DACA recipient, speaks at a rally in front of the Foley Federal Building in downtown Las Vegas Friday, July 2, 2021. Immigrant community members, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Make the Road Nevada, and community partners participated in the rally.
Judge orders end to DACA, current enrollees safe for now
July 16, 2021
A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered an end to an Obama-era program that prevented the deportations of some immigrants brought into the United States as children, putting new pressure for action on ...
Erika Castro, a DACA recipient, speaks at a rally in front of the Foley Federal Building in downtown Las Vegas Friday, July 2, 2021. Immigrant community members, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Make the Road Nevada, and community partners participated in the rally.
In Las Vegas, a spirited call for path to citizenship, immigration reform
July 3, 2021
Erika Castro longs for the day when her parents no longer fear being deported and separated from their children, which would require a president finally delivering on ...
Iraqi native Kofades, who didn't disclose his last name, takes a selfie with his family at a ceremony to celebrate World Refugee Day and to honor newly naturalized Las Vegans at East Las Vegas Library Thursday, June 17, 2021.
Las Vegas event honors special group of new U.S. citizens, marking World Refugee Day
June 18, 2021
Deacon Tom Roberts walked up to the new U.S. citizens being honored Thursday during a World Refugee Day event at the East Las Vegas Library and handed them a small American flag. “God bless you, and God bless America,” said Roberts.
Graduate student Adugna "Adu" Siweya poses at UNLV Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Siweya, an immigrant from Ethiopia, will graduate with a Master's Degree in Public Health on Thursday.
UNLV to honor immigrant's long, hard journey to graduation
May 13, 2021
Adugna “Adu” Siweya would drive his taxi past UNLV many times during his shift taking passengers to and from the airport. He would glance over at the university and envision what it would be like being a student.
A person receives the COVID-19 vaccination at UNLV, Monday, April 5, 2021.
Push on to get more Latinos vaccinated against COVID-19
April 28, 2021
Public health officials are continuing their push to get Latinos vaccinated against COVID-19 with a telethon Thursday ...
A person receives the COVID-19 vaccination at UNLV, Monday, April 5, 2021.
Undocumented immigrants in Las Vegas urged to shed fears in vaccination push
April 18, 2021
The Cashman Center is big, and so is the sound of mariachi. It was an appeal to Latinos, the most overrepresented group in coronavirus infections but among the least vaccinated, and especially toward some of the most vulnerable among them, those living in the U.S. without ...