Illegal Immigration Archives

PEW: Six Percent of Nevada’s Population is ‘Unauthorized’

November 17, 2023 11:29 amNovember 27, 2023 9:48 am

According to a study published by Pew Research drawn from census and labor data, nearly six percent of Nevada’s population are “unauthorized immigrants.’ The study notes that from 2019-2021, the number of unauthorized immigrants in Nevada decreased by 25,000. Nevada (9%) and Texas (8%) had the highest shares of unauthorized...

Senator Doñate Has HOPE To Expand Medicaid to Undocumented Immigrants

March 28, 2023 12:07 pmApril 3, 2023 2:57 pm

Yesterday, Democratic Senator Fabian Doñate introduced the HOPE Act, the “Nevada Health Opportunities, Planning, and Expansion Act”, which would expand Medicaid benefits to all Nevada residents regardless of their immigration status. According to a KFF study, non-citizens are more likely than citizens to be uninsured. The uninsured rate for recent...

North Las Vegas Proposes Bill Removing Citizenship Requirement For Police Officers

January 23, 2023 11:48 amJanuary 24, 2023 1:05 pm

In a move similar to California and Utah, and to address police recruitment challenges, the North Las Vegas city council has proposed Assembly Bill 30 which would remove the citizenship requirement to patrol the streets. According to Fox 5 news: “When we started looking at what the state had done...

Globe Interview: Sen. Ted Cruz Skewers Sen. Cortez Masto’s Voting Record

August 16, 2022 2:54 pmAugust 18, 2022 10:02 am

This past weekend, at the annual Basque Fry hosted by Morning in Nevada PAC in Gardnerville, Nevada, The Globe had the opportunity to take part in a press scrum with Texas Senator Ted Cruz. When The Globe asked Sen. Cruz about his opinion on Sen. Cortez Masto’s claims of being...

Dina Titus Is ‘Ridin’ With Biden’ As Americans And Migrants Suffer

August 4, 2022 8:59 am

A few weeks ago, I was in Washington, DC. Walking along the street that leads to the Nationals’ stadium, I encountered a young mother and her two children (around 4 and 5 years old). They appeared to be undocumented immigrants from Central America lured here by the false promise of...