Las Vegas police defy federal immigration policy

In a major win for immigration advocates, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department is joining a swell of major cities refusing to comply with requests from federal officials to detain undocumented immigrants for longer than their jail terms.

“This change has nothing to do with me taking a stand on the immigration issue,” Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said in a statement, according to NBC News. “It has more to do with a situation we’ve found ourselves in and this is the best thing to do until the feds figure it out.”

Las Vegas is the latest major city to defy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, just one week after Los Angeles became the largest city in the country to challenge the practice .... http://www.msnbc.com