New ICE Data Shows Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Working And Nevada Is Safer for It

The Nevada Independent finally admitted what Nevadans living in the real world have known for years: when immigration laws are actually enforced, dangerous criminals get taken off the streets.

New ICE data shows a surge in arrests and removals across Nevada and the surrounding region under President Trump’s renewed enforcement push. Predictably, The Nevada Independent frames this as some sort of crisis. But for Nevadans who’ve dealt with the consequences of open-border extremism, it’s long-overdue accountability.

Here’s what the data really tells us:

• ICE is finally allowed to do its job. After years of Biden-era handcuffs on law enforcement, Trump restored interior enforcement and reversed policies that let criminal aliens remain in the country unless they committed the “right” crimes.
• The majority of arrests are NOT harmless “non-criminal” migrants. Dig deeper into the categories and you find DUI offenders, domestic abusers, theft suspects, repeat immigration violators, and fugitives wanted by other agencies. Washington elites may shrug at that; Nevadans don’t.
• The crackdown is concentrated exactly where it should be. Clark County,  home to the state’s largest illegal population, saw a large portion of enforcement activity. That’s not discrimination; that’s geography meeting reality.

Progressives and their media allies want Nevadans to believe immigration enforcement is inherently cruel. But enforcement isn’t the problem, the political class that ignored the crisis for years is.

This new data undermines every talking point Nevada Democrats have leaned on since 2021. For years, they claimed:

• “Illegal immigration isn’t a problem in Nevada.”
• “Most removals are harmless people, not criminals.”
• “Trump enforcement is racially targeted.”

Yet the numbers contradict them. Enforcement rose because the number of offenders in the region is high, not because ICE is suddenly rounding up law-abiding Nevadans at random.

While ICE is working overtime to clean up the consequences of federal negligence, Nevada’s Democratic delegation, Dina Titus, Susie Lee, and Steven Horsford, continues to support sanctuary-style policies and votes that weaken enforcement.

• They opposed border security expansions.
• They backed policies limiting cooperation with ICE.
• They minimized the impact of criminal illegal aliens in Nevada communities.

They will never admit that stronger enforcement saves lives. But every Nevada family who has watched crime rise under Biden doesn’t need a press release to understand it.

Trump’s immigration crackdown isn’t a crisis, it’s a course correction. The only people uncomfortable with it are politicians who built careers pretending the border crisis wasn’t real.

Nevadans deserve safer streets, secure borders, and leaders who don’t hide behind euphemisms. This new data proves that enforcing the law still works, no matter how loudly the left complains.

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