LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The ACLU of Nevada is difficult an settlement between Metro police and ICE to help in immigration enforcement, and to carry individuals in custody once they would in any other case be launched.
An ACLU lawsuit filed on behalf of Sergio Morais-Hechavarria, 36, who’s in custody on the Clark County Detention Middle (CCDC). He’s on a maintain with no projected launch date, despite the fact that a Nevada choose ordered his switch to an inpatient therapy facility.
The ACLU has scheduled a information convention on Tuesday to announce the lawsuit, which signifies there have been 957 requests for ICE holds at CCDC for the reason that begin of the 12 months. That rely was from Sept. 1, 2025.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division illegally entered right into a contract — referred to within the lawsuit as a 287 (g) settlement — with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 16, in keeping with the lawsuit. State regulation doesn’t give Sheriff Kevin McMahill the authority to enter into such an settlement, the lawsuit argues.”
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A replica of the lawsuit was launched on Monday, and is obtainable right here.
“Whereas ICE officers seemingly consider they will use native police to additional destabilize communities, we do not subscribe to their idea, ACLU of Nevada Govt Director Athar Haseebullah mentioned.
ACLU of Nevada Govt Director Athar Haseebullah. (KLAS)
“LVMPD’s 287(g) settlement with ICE, signed after the federal authorities idiotically labeled Las Vegas a ‘sanctuary metropolis’ with out even defining ‘sanctuary metropolis,’ and forces Nevada taxpayers to cowl the price of ICE’s work whereas concurrently disregarding a lawfully issued order by a Nevada courtroom requiring our shopper to endure therapy. If a Nevada choose orders somebody into therapy as a part of a sentence, no matter their immigration standing, that sentence is to be served.
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“A person shouldn’t rot in a detention facility when ordered into treatment because the federal government has pressured local governments and local police into complicity with a disastrous, destabilizing, and destructive approach to immigration enforcement. ACLU of Nevada remains committed to building a firewall for freedom that all Nevadans, including the ones who despise us, can benefit from as the federal government continues to try to find ways to erode civil liberties and due process,” Hasseebullah mentioned.
Such agreements are additionally in place in three different Nevada counties — Douglas, Lyon and Mineral counties — in keeping with the ACLU of Nevada.
Morais-Hechavarria was arrested on a cost of trying to own a stolen car on June 17. He was entered a plea on July 8, and was ordered on Aug. 19 to inpatient therapy.
The ICE maintain prevented that switch, and he has remained in CCDC since.
The ACLU beforehand sued Metro in July, claiming police have been refusing to launch public data associated to immigration enforcement.
