With Republicans taking control of both houses of Congress and the White House, Amodei will be the most influential Nevadan in the Capitol. And his mission goes beyond his Nevada priorities — his position as chair of the Homeland Security subcommittee in the Appropriations Committee will be more important, and scrutinized, than ever, as he’s tasked with funding the agencies that President-elect Donald Trump plans to deploy toward his mass deportation campaign.

On top of separating loved ones, immigration advocates say that a mass deportation campaign could be widely disruptive to Nevada’s economy and cultural fabric. 

During his tenure, he shepherded the agency through the COVID-19 pandemic and many other public health challenges, including the opioid epidemic.

Inflation, concern about border security and unfocused Democratic messaging all contributed to Trump’s increasing success with Nevada Latinos.

The expansion is the result of a Biden administration rule in May that ended the exclusion of DACA recipients from health plans offered on ACA marketplaces and coverage through a Basic Health Program (BHP).

For more than an hour, participants at the event expressed wide-ranging grievances with the current state of affairs.

Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for a town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday with undecided Latino voters who lamented a “broken” immigration system and the rising cost of housing, health care and groceries.

With former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris proposing to crack down on illegal immigration, a majority of Nevadans support opening more pathways to legal citizenship for undocumented people, according to new polling.

As immigration policy becomes increasingly stringent and visas remain hard to come by, attendees at the event described Corazón de Plata — which translates to Heart of Silver — as a lifeline, allowing them to reconnect with family members they might have never seen otherwise. 

Many of the complaints mentioned detainees’ problems accessing health care services — ranging from being ignored by medical staff to one patient accidentally being injected with insulin.

Barajas said he’s speaking out about his support for Trump now because of rising inflation and economic conditions

A Texas judge’s decision to temporarily block a Biden administration program that offered a lifeline to legal residency for hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses didn’t exactly come as a surprise to Latino advocates in Nevada.

Since 2021, the program has been prohibited from processing new applications, and currently faces court challenges in seven states. 

With no personal income tax in Nevada, the majority of undocumented peoples’ tax payments came from property or sales tax on things such utilities, household products and gasoline.

In an executive order unveiled Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced that undocumented spouses of American citizens who meet certain legal criteria will be shielded from deportation as they seek legal residency.

During a press conference, several speakers spoke about their experiences with DACA, a program whose fate may soon be determined by an appeals court.

When asked if he employed migrant workers, Larsen said he employs “a lot of illegals,” a term that immigration advocates have long argued is dehumanizing and incorrect, considering that entering the country without documentation is not a crime.

Nevada’s Democrats are now calling for further immigration and border-related policy, but they’re asking the Biden administration to take the lead — a tacit acknowledgment that a congressional immigration deal is impossible, at least in an election year.

Despite there not being a guarantee, students and staff can take the first step, some need to get past a mistrust of law enforcement because of bad experiences in their home countries.

Though a bevy of proposals — expanding TPS to more nations and issuing executive orders to give more categories of undocumented immigrants work eligibility — have been floated by immigration advocates, any new executive actions beyond TPS are likely to be challenged in court. Even so, business leaders, immigrants and politicians are urging the administration to do more.