In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

It’s been weeks since immigration attorney Laura Barrera has had a full day off. Like hundreds of her colleagues, she can barely keep up with fallout from the Trump administration’s family separation policy – and a host of other procedural changes.

A father and his 5-year-old daughter have been reunited after being separated under President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy for immigrants suspected of crossing the border illegally.

Representing undocumented immigrants caught up in President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy can present many unexpected challenges, including finding your client within the sprawling U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention system.

Las Vegas attorney Laura Barrera said her immigrant client, who had been separated from his 5-year-old daughter and detained in Henderson as a result of the Trump administration’s now-suspended zero-tolerance policy, has been reunited with the girl.

Here is one case we know of: inside the Henderson Detention Center sat an undocumented father, separated at the border from his daughter.
It’s been weeks since immigration attorney Laura Barrera has had a full day off. Like hundreds of her colleagues, she can barely keep up with fallout from the Trump administration’s family separation policy – and a host of other procedural changes.

Here is one case we know of: inside the Henderson Detention Center sat an undocumented father, separated at the border from his daughter. He turned to the immigration clinic at UNLV's Boyd Law School for help.
Because he sat on the D.C. Circuit, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh did not decide many immigration cases.

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Nevada has held detainees under President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy for prosecuting immigrants captured while crossing the border illegally, according to GOP Sen. Dean Heller.

In February, Heller declined an invitation from the UNLV Immigration Clinic to visit with unaccompanied children in Las Vegas from Central America who the clinic represents.

Amid a growing court backlog, many children are still not represented by an attorney in the Las Vegas Immigration Court.