Gubernatorial candidate Phil Lyman has focused recent campaign messaging on Utah’s disputed status as a “sanctuary state.” The state lawmaker, who is running in the Republican primary against Gov. Spencer Cox, argued Utah is effectively a sanctuary state because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are unable to hold migrants who break the law after entering the country illegally in county jails for extended periods of time.

During his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to reverse the immigration policies implemented by former President Donald Trump, particularly criticizing a policy that restricted the number of asylum-seekers allowed to enter the country each day at the southern border.

In his 2020 campaign, Joe Biden vowed to undo former President Donald Trump ’s immigration policies, specifically expressing frustration with a policy setting limits on the number of asylum seekers accepted each day at the southern border.

Nevada’s Democrats backed a border bill far more conservative than prior immigration deals. Why Republicans killed it anyway, and what it bodes for November.

Biden chasing Trump’s goals, says immigration advocate

Gov. Joe Lombardo, a long-time law enforcement official and former Southern Nevada sheriff, is one of several Republican governors who have sided with Texas’s defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows federal law enforcement to tear down razor wire barriers that have “increased safety risk” to border agents and migrants alike.

Donald Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, has defended her comments suggesting that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will "step up" and rule in favor of the former president in the Colorado 2024 ballot decision.

Trump lawyer ‘has faith’ in US supreme court justice appointed by the former president, though the court hasn’t said if it will weigh in