When Oregon lawmakers in 2022 considered a plan to ensure immigrants facing deportation could receive free state-funded legal representation, proponents could hardly contain their enthusiasm.

Before we ask if Donald Trump can deport millions, remember this: Barack Obama already showed us how. His administration deported 3 million people without military help – just U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, buses, and a ruthless efficiency that earned him the name ‘Deporter-in-Chief.” Parents like Andres Jimenez were sent away for driving without a license, leaving five American children behind. Trump’s first term saw fewer deportations, but now he’s promising to add military muscle.

Although many people don’t realize it, there’s an intersection between two completely different areas of law. When a noncitizen child seeks Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), immigration and guardianship law intersect to provide a pathway to lawful permanent resident (LPR) status for children who cannot be reunited with their parents due to abuse, abandonment, and/ or neglect, when it’s not in their best interest to return to their home country. SIJS is a form of humanitarian immigration relief that, if granted, offers stability and safety to vulnerable immigrant children in the U.S.

Under Title 42, migrants seeking asylum at the border were turned away as part of a public health policy to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

For people hoping to make America home, the process can be complicated and costly. That’s why UNLV’s Immigration Clinic offers free services to people navigating the process and pro-bono representation for those fighting deportation cases.

On Thursday, the UNLV Immigration Clinic and UNLV Student Government are hosting an all-day DACA renewal and citizenship resource fair.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak is joining a handful of moderate Democrats pushing back on President Joe Biden’s plan to roll back a Trump-era immigration policy that prevented asylum-seekers from entering the U.S.

On the Southern border the chorus is growing louder with a single overarching question: what is the plan?