'Not my job': Sheriff vows Las Vegas Police will not assist with Trump's illegal immigration 'roundups'

After President Donald Trump's instrumentality to the White House and swift, sweeping actions to crack down connected amerciable immigration, the caput of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), Sheriff Kevin McMahill, doubled down connected a argumentation guiding officers to bounds practice with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC) and not assistance with national migration "roundups."

The section emphasized its argumentation of not investigating immigration violations, according to a connection posted connected X Tuesday. The section said its connection was successful effect to "questions regarding migration enforcement."

The policy, which was instituted during the first Trump administration successful 2019 and past amended successful 2023, states that "although Nevada bid officers person the authorization to assistance successful enforcing national laws, LVMPD officers volition not enforce migration violations." And "officers volition not halt and question, detain, arrest, oregon spot an migration clasp connected immoderate individuals connected the grounds they are an undocumented immigrant.

"It is the argumentation of this section to admit the dignity of each persons, careless of their nationalist root oregon migration status," the argumentation states. "LVMPD is committed to community-oriented policing arsenic a strategy that focuses connected processing relationships with assemblage members careless of the migration presumption of a fishy oregon victim."

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President Donald Trump and Sheriff Kevin McMahill, caput of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police. (Getty Images)

According to the LVMPD policy, the section "will stock transgression quality regarding transnational organized transgression and planetary coercion with immoderate and each instrumentality enforcement agencies to see ICE." 

The argumentation further states that the section volition besides notify ICE erstwhile a foreign-born idiosyncratic is arrested and charged with a convulsive felony, home unit oregon driving nether the power astatine the clip of booking and release.

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However, the LVMPD argumentation says that the section "will not hold the merchandise of an inmate for ICE" and volition merchandise a migrant "if ICE is not contiguous astatine the clip of the inmate’s release."

In an interrogation with section outlet 8 News Now, McMahill said his officers would not assistance national authorities with "roundups" of amerciable immigrants, saying, "That’s not my job. I person excessively overmuch to do.

"I don’t mean to alteration that argumentation immoderate clip soon. What I bash anticipation happens is that there’s a bipartisan effort to unafraid our border."

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill speaks to the media astatine section office successful Las Vegas Jan. 7, 2025. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

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In erstwhile statements, ICE has said instrumentality enforcement agencies refusing to grant its migration "detainers," oregon clasp requests, unnecessarily spot agents and communities successful information by necessitating perchance convulsive confrontations and arrests successful nationalist spaces.

Tom Homan, Trump’s borderline czar, has spoken retired unequivocally against nationalist officials who person vowed not to cooperate with national migration authorities.

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"When you merchandise a nationalist information menace backmost into the community, that puts the assemblage astatine large hazard of crime, and it puts our officers astatine large risk. Now, they’ve got to apprehension the atrocious feline connected his turf, wherever helium has entree to who knows what weapons, and it puts the nationalist astatine risk," Homan told Fox News Wednesday.

"To sanctuary cities, I’ve said this galore times: Let america into the jail, wherever it’s safer for an cause to apprehension a atrocious guy, it’s safer for the atrocious feline to beryllium arrested successful jailhouse and it's safer for the community.

"I privation to prevention lives. A unafraid borderline saves lives. And erstwhile President Trump locks this borderline down, little women and children volition beryllium enactment trafficked successful this country, little aliens volition dice making that journey," helium added. 

"Sanctuary cities are going to get precisely what they don't privation — much agents successful the communities, much radical arrested, much collaterals arrested. So, that's a crippled they privation to play? Game on."