🟣 ICE plans to build detention center in Salt Lake City, raising fears in Nevada. The Nevada Independent
“ICE frequently transfers detainees from facility to facility, with more than a thousand transfers from the Salt Lake City area to Nevada in 2025, per the Los Angeles Times. Michael Kagan, the director of the UNLV immigration clinic, said that the new facility could enable ICE to detain many more people from Nevada.”
🟣 Excavating the truth of Indigenous slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Desert Companion
“Estevan Rael-Gálvez, Native Bound Unbound’s president and founder, found that the Spaniards were predominantly enslaving Indigenous people. He documented these peoples’ trade and sale. In the process, Rael-Gálvez has uncovered Indigenous families’ historical details, dating as far back as the late-1400s and as recently as the 1950s.”
🟣 Nevada urges SNAP recipients to meet work requirements before May 1. KUNR
“The state waived the requirements one last time until May 1 for nearly 43,000 people who are considered able-bodied adults without dependents … The requirements can be met in different ways – getting a job, volunteering, or education, including vocational training.”
🟣 FBI closes 2020 election fraud inquiry ordered by Nevada’s top federal prosecutor, sources say. CBS
“The lack of any basis to pursue voter fraud investigations into the 2020 election in Nevada raises further questions about why similar inquiries are being pursued in other swing states, including Georgia and Arizona, and why there is probable cause to suggest fraud occurred in those other states.”
