The agency confirmed this week that its $145 million purchase will be used to expand detention. Nevada is overseen by the Utah regional office.

The documentary debuted at an event on March 11 focused on immigration history, enforcement fueled by anti-immigrant sentiment from the presidential administration, and the diverse ways immigrants contribute to Nevada’s community, economy, and workforce.

The deportation denied not only the accused his day in court but also denied his victims what was likely their best hope at receiving compensation

Seemingly overnight, lawyers trained in immigration law have found themselves doubling as federal litigators as district courts became the de facto battleground in detention defense during the second Trump administration.

Nevada has not seen the barrage of armed federal officers carrying out immigration enforcement that other cities have seen, but immigration arrests in the state increased drastically last year, with at least 2,155 detained in the first 10 months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Mountain West law-enforcement agreements with ICE rose five-fold in 2025

Protests across the Las Vegas Valley erupted after 37-year old Alex Pretti, a legal observer and an intensive care unit nurse in Minnesota, was shot and killed during an altercation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend. But Southern Nevada municipalities have been quiet on the subject, and their elected leaders have been more restrained in their criticism than some of their counterparts elsewhere in the country. Many agencies in Clark County have working relationships with ICE, ranging from informal collaborations at jails to financial contracts to hold detainees. With 1 in 5 foreign born residents, the county is one of the most diverse in the United States but has not had the kind of public, large-scale ICE deployment seen in Minneapolis or Los Angeles.

Bovino’s departure from Minnesota comes as the White House on Monday announced that border czar Tom Homan is being sent to the state as the Trump administration’s new point person for immigration enforcement operations.