All of Southern Nevada’s congressional delegation votes for legislation
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Metro police have amended their Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) notification coverage to incorporate extra crimes after the passage of the Laken Riley Act.
Earlier than Congress handed and President Donald Trump signed the brand new legislation this week, Metro’s coverage was to alert ICE if an inmate was in custody for violent felonies, DUI, and home violence-related crimes, LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill mentioned.
The brand new coverage provides theft, larceny, shoplifting and assaulting a police officer to the listing to align with the brand new federal legislation. The invoice handed the Home earlier this month in a 263-156 vote, with 46 Democrats supporting it after the Senate accepted the measure in a bipartisan 64-35 vote. Southern Nevada’s congressional delegation — all Democrats — voted for it.
“It is the policy of this department to recognize the dignity of all persons, regardless of their national origin or immigration status,” the coverage mentioned. “Although Nevada peace officers have the authority to assist in enforcing federal laws, LVMPD officers will not enforce immigration violations. Officers will not stop and question, detain, arrest of place an immigration hold on any individuals on the ground they are an undocumented immigrant. However, LVMPD will share criminal intelligence regarding transnational organized crime and international terrorism with any and all law enforcement agencies to include ICE.”
In an unique interview earlier this month, McMahill mentioned ICE is not going to at all times choose up inmates on the jail.
“I don’t care which president in the past it’s been, they’ve never picked up over 40% of the people that they’ve been notified of,” McMahill mentioned. “I don’t intend to change that policy anytime soon. What I do hope happens is there’s a bipartisan effort to secure our border.”
McMahill instituted the coverage to alert immigration officers after sure arrests after his election in 2023, he mentioned. The 2019 coverage would have been applied below then-Sheriff Joe Lombardo who’s now governor.
An undocumented immigrant killed Riley whereas she was jogging in Georgia in February 2024. The person who killed her was beforehand arrested a number of instances however not federally detained.
