24-05-2025
ICE detains asylum seekers, UNLV immigration clinic says
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — 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.
'We are concerned that the government will try to use something called expedited removal to deport them without ever going back before a judge,' UNLV Immigration Clinic Director Michael Kagan said.
Kagan said they've confirmed ICE arrested the men, who are now behind bars in Pahrump.
'It's really unclear whether they are being legally detained right now,' he said.
Kagan said the Department of Homeland Security found some of the men had a credible fear of persecution or torture in their home countries and were going through the legal process to determine if they should be deported.
'And yet DHS has decided, well, let's just stop the deportation proceedings and arrest them anyway,' Kagan said.
He said the move strips the men of their due process that they're owed by the legal system, and says it causes concern for the rest of the country.
'It's very dangerous that this administration is constantly trying to find ways to avoid courts, to avoid the idea that everyone in America has their day in court, and in the end, it threatens all of our rights,' Kagan said.
In a statement posted on X, the Nevada GOP said, '@unlv and @nshe should be stripped of federal funding until they stop being sanctuary campuses for illegal aliens!
No public money for illegals, hard stop.'
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