Will Nevada Force
Local Governmental Agencies to Restrict Immigration Enforcement?
If you thought the current legislative session was throwing you a silent curve about changing the name of McCarran International to Harry Reid International, get a load of these two bills introduced.
With a debt of gratitude, Anthem
Opinions thanks Sun City Anthem Resident, Nelson
Orth, for his research in bringing this issue to our
attention.
The first, Senate
Bill 223, essentially allows the state to "call the shots" on who will or will not enforce
immigration law.
Of course, we are talking about
sanctuary cities.
Just what is a sanctuary city?
According to
Wikepedia...
A sanctuary city is
a city what harbors refugees and undocumented individuals through municipal
policies or funds.
Policies which support or
encourage illegal alien inhabitance may include nonexistent or selective
enforcement of national immigration laws.
This can be achieved by
forbidding municipal police or employees to inquire about immigration status or
by failing to alert immigration authorities when an illegal alien's immigration
status is discovered.
Other policies may
include providing undocumented individuals access to municipal services or
social welfare programs.
Such policies can be set
out expressly in law (de jure), or observed in practice (de
facto).
Are such practices legal? You
decide.
Summarizing
current federal law:
Any person who, knowing that an alien remains in the U.S. in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields that person from detection...shall be fined under title 18, and imprisoned not more than 10 years.
Read the full
law:
With this information in mind, on February 27, 2017, the following bill was introduced in the
Nevada State Senate:
SB
223
Original Bill Summary:
Restricts certain state
and local governmental agencies from performing certain actions relating to
immigration enforcement.
Current Bill
Title:
AN ACT relating to criminal procedure;
restricting certain state and local governmental agencies from performing
certain actions relating to immigration enforcement; and providing other matters
properly relating thereto.
Bill Amendment Dates: No Amendments
Which legislators are the primary
sponsors of this bill?
Primary
Sponsorship
Yvanda
Cansela
(D-Las Vegas)
Tick Segerblom
(D-Las
Vegas)
Aaron Ford
(D-Las
Vegas)
Julia Ratti
(D-Sparks)
Moises Denis
(D-Las
Vegas)
Other
Sponsors
Kelvin
Atkinson
(D-Las
Vegas)
Mark A.
Manendo
(D-Las
Vegas)
David R. Parks
(D-Las
Vegas)
Pat Spearman
(D-North Las
Vegas)
Joyce
Woodhouse
(D-Henderson)
Shannon
Bilbray-Axelrod
(D-Las
Vegas)
Chis Brooks
(D-Las
Vegas)
Sandra Jauregui
(D-Las
Vegas)
Daniele Monroe-Moreno
(D-North Las
Vegas)
But...there is
more...another bill, Senate Bill 333, introduced on March 20, 2017,which prohibits, limits, or
discourages cooperation of immigration enforcement
laws.
SB
333
Original Bill Summary:
Prohibits a county or
city from adopting, enforcing or endorsing a policy which prohibits, limits or
discourages cooperation with the enforcement of the immigration laws of the
United States.
Current
Bill Title:
AN ACT relating to local governments;
prohibiting a county or city from enacting an ordinance or otherwise adopting,
enforcing or endorsing a policy which prohibits, limits or discourages
cooperation with the enforcement of the immigration laws of the United States;
requiring the Attorney General to investigate and issue an opinion on whether a
county or city has violated such a prohibition; providing, under certain
circumstances, that a county or city that violates such a prohibition is
ineligible to receive any money appropriated by the State; and providing other
matters properly relating thereto.Bill Amendment Dates: No Amendments
Primary
Sponsorship
Michael
Roberson
(R-Henderson)
In both cases, no hearings
have yet to be scheduled.
We have sent emails to
EACH of the HENDERSON MAYORAL CANDIDATES asking them which bill they would
support.
Below are responses from five candidates:
Angelo
Gomez
Edward
Hamilton
Debra
March
Crystal Hendrickson
Rick Workman
Crystal Hendrickson
Rick Workman
And...if we
receive additional responses, we'll promptly publish them at the end of this
article.
Do you have an opinion as
to which should be adopted (if either) ?
First, we suggest that you
make your views known to the State of Nevada by clicking on this
link:
...then send us
a comment at:
Dick,
I am 100 percent opposed to Henderson becoming a sanctuary city, and I will fight hard to keep it from becoming one.
Period.
Thank you Dick, nice job.
You’re providing a great service to our community.