In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

USA Today

After years of Texas being the first stop for people illegally crossing the border, Lone Star State officials are volunteering to let President-elect Donald Trump use a state ranch as the last place immigrants set foot on American soil before being forcibly deported.On Tuesday, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered Trump a 1,400-acre ranch near the border in South Texas to host a mass deportation facility. Buckingham bought the ranch earlier this year, she said, because the previous owner refused to let Texas build a border wall across it.

Nevada Current

Nevada’s captains of industry and political leaders are doing little, if anything, to prepare for the potential economic hit as well as the human toll of President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to deport at least 11 million undocumented immigrants, including 189,000 who live in Nevada.

Las Vegas Weekly

With Donald Trump in line to be the next president of the United States, immigrant communities across Nevada and the nation are bracing for his promise to carry out the “largest deportation in the history of our country,” removing millions of immigrants in mass roundups and raids. Among the most immediate effects of such a move would be to tear Nevada families apart, experts predict.

Las Vegas Weekly

With Donald Trump in line to be the next president of the United States, immigrant communities across Nevada and the nation are bracing for his promise to carry out the “largest deportation in the history of our country,” removing millions of immigrants in mass roundups and raids. Among the most immediate effects of such a move would be to tear Nevada families apart, experts predict.

USA Today

Giddel Contreras lives in the Bronx, works as a chef at a hotel-resort in Queens and is as much a New Yorker as the next guy. But the Honduran native's decision to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border back in 1995 means he may now be a target for deportation – despite being married more than a decade to a U.S. citizen, living and working legally in the U.S. for more than 25 years and having a child who's a U.S. citizen.

Citywire RIA

This presidential election is putting bonds front and centre and that's not necessarily a good thing.

Las Vegas Review Journal

As Hate Crimes Awareness Month comes to a close, the reason behind the month rings louder than ever before.

Salon

When candidates make policy proposals on the campaign trail, they often sound beneficial but don't always hold up to closer scrutiny.

Las Vegas Sun

Former President Donald Trump has pledged a nationwide purge and deportation of up to 15 million immigrants, creating a scenario unprecedented in American history. Trump’s advisers say it would entail creating detention camps and nationwide workplace raids.

Associated Press

Jocelyn Ruiz remembers when her fifth-grade teacher warned the class about large-scale patrols that would target immigrants in Arizona’s largest metropolitan area. She asked her mom about it — and unearthed a family secret. Ruiz’s mother had entered the United States illegally, leaving Mexico a decade earlier in search of a better life.

Bloomberg

California would establish the nation’s highest statewide minimum wage if voters approve a ballot initiative raising it to $18, as one of a half dozen states sending wage and paid sick time proposals to voters next month.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Station Casinos on Tuesday filed a constitutional challenge to National Labor Relations Board proceedings, seeking a way to stop several union-busting allegations in litigation by alleging the federal agency lacks the authority to prosecute claims against businesses like them.