HomePoliticsILLEGAL ALIEN SANCTUARY HEARINGS TODAY IN NV LEGISLATURE Politics ILLEGAL ALIEN SANCTUARY HEARINGS TODAY IN NV LEGISLATURE PHOTO/Elmer MARTINEZ (Photo credit should read ELMER MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images) March 29, 2019 Today, at 8am, the Nevada legislature will hear testimony from the community before deciding to vote for Assembly Bill 281, which will prohibit police from turning over illegal aliens to ICE without a specific Federal warrant for that individual. Under current laws, every person booked into jail for a felony is ran thru ICE to determine if they are in the country legally. If so, then ICE can pick them up and deport them. SB218 Sponsored By: Assemblyman Edgar Flores Assemblywoman Selena Torres Assemblyman Howard Watts Assemblyman Ozzie Fumo Assemblyman Alexander Assefa Assemblywoman Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod Assemblyman Richard Carrillo Assemblywoman Bea Duran Assemblywoman Susie Martinez Assemblyman William McCurdy Assemblywoman Connie Munk Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen The Bill Language: This bill prohibits a state or local law enforcement agency, school police unit or campus police department from detaining a person on the basis of a hold request relating to immigration enforcement, except where there is an independent finding of probable cause. This bill also provides that the provisions of this bill must not be construed to prevent any state or local law enforcement agency, school police unit or campus police department from participation in a delegated authority program,6 which is defined as a program implemented pursuant to section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1357(g).
