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LV Metro signs new agreement with ICE

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has announced a new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that will align the Department with federal authorities. In an apparent reversal of standing policy, Metro Police have signed a memorandum of agreement to revive the department’s partnership with U.S. ICE. The new 287(g) agreement is under the Warrant Service Officer program, which enables local officers to execute administrative warrants for people already in jail.

The 287(g) program is described by ICE as a partnership with local law enforcement to remove criminal aliens from the U.S.

“When an inmate is prepared for release, officers inside the Clark County Detention Center will serve an ICE warrant on the inmate and hold them for no more than 48 (additional) hours,” said a Department spokesperson. Metro policy previously dictated that the department wouldn’t delay the release of inmates for ICE. Despite the new agreement, Metro stated there will be no additional changes to its immigration policy.

Metro’s spokesperson said the agreement, which is currently pending with ICE, was signed Friday, a day after “Las Vegas City” was listed as a sanctuary jurisdiction by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. That list has since been deleted.

Source:

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jun/03/metro-relents-appears-ready-to-cooperate-with-ice

Resolution Calls for ICE Ban at Nevada Schools and Churches

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