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Travelers use new automated screening lanes at the security checkpoint in Terminal 3 at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev. on August 31, 2017.
No delays at Las Vegas airport, despite government shutdown
Jan. 8, 2019
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Despite the partial government shutdown and reports of unpaid Transportation Security Administration workers calling out sick or quitting, security checkpoints at the ...
A migrant from Honduras looks from the border fence into the U.S. side before jumping to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents.
Wall debate obscures other struggles at the border
Jan. 6, 2019
By Colleen Long, Associated Press
Border authorities are struggling with outdated facilities ill-equipped to handle the growing increase in family migrants, resulting in immigrants being released onto the streets every day ...
Experts: Proposed public-charge rule would ‘punish’ immigrants for poverty
Dec. 19, 2018
By Yvonne Gonzalez
Groups are already starting to see people, especially those from families with a mix of immigration statuses, afraid to enroll in ...
Immigration arrests up in ICE zone covering Nevada
Dec. 17, 2018
Associated Press
Arrests of people suspected of living in the U.S. illegally have increased 24 percent in a four-state region since President Donald Trump entered office, mirroring a ...
In this Jan. 5, 2016, file photo, Ammon Bundy speaks during an interview at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, near Burns, Ore.
Ammon Bundy breaks with Trump on anti-migrant rhetoric: ‘It’s all fear-based’
Nov. 28, 2018
The Washington Post
The images beaming out of the U.S.-Mexico border — migrants storming barricades, children gagging on tear gas — have intensified the debate regarding the Trump administration’s ...
Maria Gomez, 22, carries her son David Moises, 1, as the thousands-strong caravan of Central Americans migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border moves onward from Juchitan, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Thousands of migrants resumed their slow trek through southern Mexico on Thursday, after attempts to obtain bus transport to Mexico City failed.
Questions and answers about Trump's new immigration ban
Nov. 11, 2018
By Associated Press
President Donald Trump ordered Friday that anyone who enters the U.S. illegally from Mexico by going around official border crossings is ineligible ...
Culinary workers urge protection for immigrants under federal programs
Oct. 17, 2018
By Chris Kudialis
With the future of immigrants under two federal relief programs in limbo, about 200 union workers in Las Vegas met today with Democratic political candidates and federal lawmakers, urging them to ...
In this March 12, 2018 file photo, supporters of temporary protected status of immigrants cheer, hold signs and a banner with the outline of El Salvador at a rally at a federal courthouse in San Francisco, the day a lawsuit was filed against the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that lets immigrants live and work legally in the United States. During a hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen questioned the Trump administration's motives to end the program and repeated the president's vulgar language to describe some countries during a White House meeting in January.
'I’d lose everything': Immigrants in Las Vegas unite to preserve protected status
Oct. 5, 2018
By Chris Kudialis
Pablo Deras escaped natural disaster and poverty in his home country of El Salvador nearly two decades ago to make his American dream come true in Las Vegas. A janitor at the Wynn, Deras, 38, worked up to three jobs to provide for his wife and now 13-year-old son since moving to the United States in 2001. Thanks to ...
ICE operation nets 67 arrests in Las Vegas area
Sept. 28, 2018
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez
An operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Nevada this month netted 67 arrests in Clark County, mostly people previously convicted on serious and violent offenses, the federal agency ...
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, Louis Alberto Enamorado Gomez stands with his daughter, Jeydi, 1, and son, Justin, 3, at their home in Grandview, Mo. Living in the U.S. since 2005, Gomez is fighting a deportation order stemming from a 2012 DUI charge because he fears what his removal would mean for his seven children, all U.S. citizens for whom he is the sole provider.
Trump's immigrant roundups increasingly net noncriminals
Sept. 19, 2018
By Matt Sedensky, Associated Press
For all the talk of murderers, rapists and other "bad hombres," those netted in President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration are typically accused of lesser offenses ...
Votación 101: Haz escuchar tu voz en las urnas
Sept. 19, 2018
Independientemente de la posición que usted tenga respecto a los problemas y a los candidatos, la votación es una función vital en nuestra sociedad, y nuestro objetivo es alentar a todos los que sean elegibles para votar a expresar y hacer valer sus opiniones en …
In this Sunday, June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. Immigrant children described hunger, cold and fear in a voluminous court filing about the facilities where they were held in the days after crossing the border.
Detention of migrant children has skyrocketed to highest levels ever
Sept. 13, 2018
By Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times News Service
Population levels at federally contracted shelters for migrant children have quietly shot up more than fivefold since last summer, reaching a total of 12,800 this month ...
Culinary union's workshop helps immigrants navigate complex process of citizenship
Aug. 26, 2018
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez
The Culinary Workers Union’s “Citizenship Fair” on Saturday in Las Vegas featured immigration experts offering free consulting services for ...
Culinary Union to host citizenship fair in Las Vegas
Aug. 22, 2018
Associated Press
The union representing thousands of casino workers in Nevada is hosting an event to provide people information on how to apply for U.S. citizenship ...
'Killed me little by little.' Family detention left lasting scars for one mother and son
Aug. 21, 2018
Los Angeles Times
For a long time, Lilian Oliva Bardales worried about how her young son, Cristhian, was adjusting to their new life in Barcelona. He squeezed her every time he saw a police officer. He got scared when ...