ACLU: Minor arrests leading to Vegas deportations
July 4, 2010

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — American Civil Liberties Union officials are raising concerns that jail screenings by Las Vegas police under a federal immigration program are leading to deportations of people nabbed for only minor infractions.

Records obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal show that about one-third of the more than 3,300 Clark County jail inmates held for deportation in the first 18 months of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 287(g) program were arrested on misdemeanor charges.

Some charges included jaywalking, fishing without a license, sleeping in public, possessing an unregistered animal and “walking on side of road.â€