Keeping churches and schools safe for all: Nevada’s ACLU director talks about AJR 9, which opposes ICE actions in education and religious facilities

Keeping churches and schools safe for all: Nevada’s ACLU director talks about AJR 9, which opposes ICE actions in education and religious facilities

On May 22, the Nevada Legislature approved a resolution making Nevada the first state in the United States to urge Congress to protect places of worship and schools from immigration-enforcement actions. The measure is Assembly Joint Resolution 9, and it was drafted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada. “We had seen and heard from community members who were expressing grave concern about what they were seeing happen in other communitie…