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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hate crimes are up more than 234% in the Las Vegas valley, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Nevada Crime Statistics defines a hate crime as a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.

Recently revealed texts highlighting a Houston attorney’s apparent interactions with a former bankruptcy judge whom she was dating have added more fuel to the fire amid allegations that their relationship led to improper communications about cases he oversaw.

Trump’s plan would effectively be a sales tax that disproportionately harms working-class families and could cause a trade war that hurts US companies, economists say.