METRO POLICE SPOKESMAN DECLARES CLARK COUNTY A SANCTUARY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS

METRO POLICE SPOKESMAN DECLARES CLARK COUNTY A SANCTUARY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS

February 19, 2017

Yesterday, at a forum sponsored by US Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Las Vegas Metro spokesman, Officer Jacinto Rivera said “The fear that’s going on, it’s not really warranted,” Riviera went on in Spanish saying “The purpose of this department, our focus, is violent crime. We will not become immigration enforcement officers.” Metro officer Jacinto Rivera today the audience that Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson police will not enforce federal immigration laws.

Last July, NEWSMAXTV LAS VEGAS reported the Department of Justice office of Inspector General’s report highlighted ten jurisdictions in the US violating federal law by failing to enforce immigration law. Clark County was one of the ten jurisdictions that have refused to turn over illegal aliens to ICE after being arrested by Metro Police, and instead released back into the community. According to the report, Clark County was listed on an ICE Declined Detainer Report in 2014 and 2015. Clark County was a beneficiary of DOJ grant funds under the Violence against Women grant program and as such may be in violation of Federal Code 8 U.S.C. 1373.

Metro Police reported an 88% increase in homicides and an increase of 50% in violent crimes in parts of town in 2016. Yet under Lombardo’s Sanctuary City policy here in Clark County, Metro Police release illegal aliens back into our communities that have been arrested for violent crimes if they can afford to post bail.

But according to sources, illegal aliens who are arrested for violent crimes who cannot afford to post bail are turned over to ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement). If the illegal alien can afford to post bail he/she is released and allowed their day in court assuming they don’t flee back across the border.

One specific case we found involved a woman who came home and walked in to find a man with knife in his hand, drunk and passed out on her couch. She left quickly called police. After waiting some two hours for the police to arrive, the man was arrested and taken into custody at approximately 10 am. He had no ID on him according to sources. He was admittedly an illegal alien according to the same source. But he was allowed to bail out for just $1,500 cash bond by the end of that day.

Metro Police declaring Clark County an offical Sanctuary for illegals today will certainly throw a monkey wrench into ongoing city council and Mayoral races sent for this April.

Las Vegas City Council Ward 6, candidate, Michele Fiore announced last week she would oppose any effort to make the City of Las Vegas a Sanctuary City.

Rob Lauer

Political Reporter

NEWSMAXTV LAS VEGAS

Report by NEWSMAXTV LAS VEGAS from July 30, 2016

NEW DOJ REPORT ACC– USES CLARK COUNTY’S SANCTUARY CITY POLICY OF VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW