On Thursday, the State Senate passed Assembly Joint Resolution 9 (AJR9). The summary of the resolution, which had been passed by the Assembly last month, reads as follows:
“Urges Congress to enact legislation to prohibit officers and agents of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States Department of Homeland Security from entering schools and places of worship for the purposes of enforcing federal immigration laws. (BDR R-779)”
The resolution was passed mostly along party lines but with one Senator, Lori Rogich, R-Las Vegas, joining the “aye” votes. Joint resolutions do not require the governor’s signature, so the resolution instructed the Chief Clerk of the Assembly to prepare and transmit a copy of this resolution to the Vice President of the United States as the presiding officer of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each member of the Nevada Congressional Delegation.
“By passing this resolution, Nevada is sending a clear message to Congress and the country that we don’t want families in our community to be afraid to practice their faith or take their kids to school, period,” Athar Haseebullah, Executive Director of the Nevada ACLU, said in a statement. He added that he appreciated Assembly members Erica Mosca, D-Las Vegas, and Cecelia González, D-Las Vegas, pushing for the resolution’s passage.
The resolution reads, in part, “The activities of federal immigration law enforcement agencies, on or around schools and places of worship, including, without limitation, surveillance, interviews, demands for information, arrests, detention or any other federal immigration enforcement activities, harmfully disrupt the learning and religious environments of schools and places of worship and significantly interfere with the ability of students and persons who attend religious services, regardless of their immigration status, to access free public education and places of worship…”
Nevada is the first state to send such a message to Congress, the state’s American Civil Liberties Union affiliate said.
Sources:
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/may/22/nevada-legislature-passes-resolution-calling-for-i/
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12391/Text