LCSO Finds Brothel Work Cards In Violation Of US Immigration Law

The Lyon County Sheriff's Office reports they conducted a series of brothel work card compliance checks of prostitutes with the assistance of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Thursday, October 4th 2018, 4:12 PM PDT




The Lyon County Sheriff's Office reports they conducted a series of brothel work card compliance checks of prostitutes with the assistance of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.


They said the prostitutes who obtained work cards were contrary to Lyon County Code and in possible violation of U.S. immigration law for the Mound House brothels, Bunny Ranch, Kit Kat Ranch and Love Ranch.


The four-month long investigation found that registration procedures were inadequate, a practice spanning multiple decades. The practices include U.S. immigration law violations, foreign country human trafficking indicators, fraudulent states, issuance of work cards prior to completing criminal history background checks and inability to validate out-of-state and other foreign national documents to determine identity.


Corrective procedures are being developed to better align with Lyon County Code for work card registration.


In Lyon County, all brothel employees are required to register for a work card specific to the brothel they are employed. The Lyon County Sheriff's Office is required by Lyon County Code to conduct periodic inspections to ensure compliance. These compliance check also ensure the medical certifications for prostitutes are up-to-date.


Sheriff Al McNeil released this statement:


The discovery of US immigration law violations in our legal brothel system is extremely alarming. The ability to coerce, exploit and traffic non-US citizens into Lyon County by foreign criminal enterprises is going to be difficult to detect and deter by our limited capabilities and resources of foreign born applicants, which has caused us to develop better working partnerships with federal agencies to combat human trafficking efforts.
This is the first time we applied a task force of multiple agencies for a work card compliance check. We already use this approach quite successfully to conduct compliance checks in other law enforcement areas, and we will give serious consideration to using this approach with future brothel compliance checks. In addition, I want to thank the US Immigration and Custom Enforcement team for their hard work and a job well done.


(The Lyon County Sheriff's Office contributed to this report).

http://www.ktvn.com/story/39233789/l...mmigration-law