The White House is doubling down on President Trump’s signature campaign promise and escalating efforts to deport undocumented immigrants, targeting Democrat-run cities and heightening tensions with powerful liberal governors from California to New York.

Last fall, a 54-year-old man sat in a white-walled Austin police interrogation room and admitted to an investigator that he had repeatedly sexually abused a young girl.

Immigrants without legal status in the U.S. numbered about 8.2 million two years ago. Pew Research says Nevada has the highest rate of those immigrants per household, at about 9 percent.

A Nevada geothermal giant could have waited years for its projects to get federal permits. Under President Donald Trump’s emergency executive order on energy, that process will take 14 days — at most.

Complaints from the farm and hotel industries that President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort is costing them valued workers will prompt change, Trump promised Thursday in a post on Truth Social.

The state bar wants another shot at stripping Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones of his law license, according to documents obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators.

Southern Nevada labor leaders demonstrated outside the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse Monday evening, demanding an end to federal immigration raids and the dismissal of charges against a California union president.

With his goal of deporting 1 million undocumented immigrants a year appearing elusive, President Donald Trump, who pledged to rid America of the “worst of the worst,” is revising his game plan in favor of sweeping, untargeted apprehension efforts that are likely to ensnare so-called ‘low-hanging fruit’ – immigrants with no criminal background who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The US Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case on whether GEO Group Inc. can immediately seek appellate review of its immunity defense to escape forced labor claims from immigration detainees promises to reshape litigation strategies in other cases.

Nearly six months after President Donald Trump took office under a sweeping campaign promise that his administration would launch “the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America,” the federal government has been mum about how his immigration enforcement is playing out in Southern Nevada.

The U.S.-Mexico border used to buzz with illegal migration at a scale President Donald Trump called an "invasion." Now soldiers surveil the desert from military vehicles, Border Patrol radios are silent and illegal crossings have fallen to record lows.

The U.S.-Mexico border used to buzz with illegal migration at a scale President Donald Trump called an "invasion." Now soldiers surveil the desert from military vehicles, Border Patrol radios are silent and illegal crossings have fallen to record lows.