The Department of Homeland Security today listed “Las Vegas City” as a sanctuary jurisdiction for immigration enforcement, writing in a news release that the hundreds of jurisdictions included “are deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”

As the president pushes for mass deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a new strategy for arresting immigrants. First, ICE lawyers terminate people’s cases in immigration court. Then ICE officers arrest them at or just outside the courthouse. As a result, immigrants who may be trying to gain legal status in the United States are instead targeted for rapid removal.

UNLV’s Immigration Clinic said six asylum-seekers were arrested by ICE in Las Vegas after leaving immigration court.

UNLV’s Immigration Clinic said ICE arrested six asylum seekers looking for ways to legally stay in the United States. Attorneys with the clinic said the federal government may be seeking ways to rapidly deport the men.

On Tuesday, six men walked into the Las Vegas immigration court for scheduled hearings. By that evening they were in ICE custody on their way to a private detention center in Pahrump, this is according to the UNLV Immigration Clinic.

Concerns over immigration raids are continuing to grow after six asylum seekers were detained at their Immigration court hearings at the Las Vegas Immigration Court on Tuesday Morning.

Federal immigration enforcement agents apprehended multiple people outside Las Vegas Immigration Court near downtown Tuesday after they attended their scheduled hearings, according to the UNLV Immigration Clinic.

Some suspects in violent assaults and sex crimes are escaping American justice because they're being deported before they can stand trial, according to a number of prosecutors and legal experts across the country.