Feds Hosting Meeting On Immigration Raids
Community Groups Outraged Following Arrests

POSTED: 10:52 am PDT September 14, 2010

LAS VEGAS -- Federal immigration officials are going to be in Las Vegas to answer questions about recent raids at Las Vegas-area bus terminals that led to the arrests of 31 people.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are hosting a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the East Las Vegas Community Center.

Immigrant rights advocate and ProgressNow Nevada activist Michael Flores told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Hispanic residents have many concerns about the July 29 raids.

The sweep came on the same day a federal judge delayed implementation of some parts of a new Arizona immigration law. Customs officials said the southern Nevada operation involved agents from Yuma, Ariz., trying to disrupt drug trafficking and human smuggling.

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