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Misinformation about immigration is fueling fear across the Las Vegas Valley community. At UNLV’s “We Need to Talk” panel on immigration, Tuesday, attorneys and advocates warned of a wave of panic spreading from online rumors to real life consequences. The discussion centered around facts vs fear.
It remains President Donald Trump’s most oft-repeated campaign pledge from 2024: the largest mass deportation in American history.
For years, Nevada has ranked among the lowest in the country for vaccination rates, and it’s getting worse.
Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management have agreed to share data on public lands that could be released for future development as part of Gov. Joe Lombardo’s larger effort to fix the state’s housing crisis.
A report from UNLV Criminal Justice professor Dr. William H. Sousa showed that from 2018 to 2022, there was a 23% increase in disorderly calls for service on Las Vegas Boulevard and 11% of those calls were on pedestrian bridges.
Chris Heavey, interim president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and DeRionne Pollard, president of Nevada State University, also joined the statement, titled “A Call for Constructive Engagement.”
Everyone’s heard of the Bermuda Triangle, that three-sided zone of terror where planes and ships go missing for no known reason in the Atlantic Ocean. Nevada has its own equally mythical place.
Pahrump judge and former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore was a no-show in court Monday, days after President Donald Trump pardoned her on federal wire fraud charges.