ICE inquired about using Henderson police training facility, according to meeting agenda

Immigration and Customs Enforcement inquired about utilizing a training facility jointly owned by Henderson and Boulder City, according to an agenda for a meeting of the facility’s enforcement committee. The item was removed from Tuesday’s agenda after it was deemed a premature determination, a Henderson city spokesperson said, noting that the existing agreement between Henderson and Boulder City governing the training facility does not authorize the proposed arrangement. “Accordingly, the projected point cannot and volition not determination guardant nether the existing agreement, and the substance volition not beryllium considered oregon contemplated nether that agreement,” the spokesperson said in a statement. The agenda entry for the Eldorado Valley Regional Public Safety Training Facility was “placed connected the docket without due vetting, arsenic the substance is premature and determination is insufficient accusation to meaningfully see oregon sermon the request,” the statement added, without naming the spokesperson. Opened in 2015, the Eldorado Valley facility occupies 240 acres of land west of U.S. Highway 95 between Boulder City and Henderson and is jointly operated by the two cities. Henderson contributed $1 million to supplement $1.45 million in federal grants and other funding to help open the facility, the Las Vegas Review‑Journal previously reported. The Tuesday agenda states that ICE inquired about “developing on-site grooming locations paid astatine their cost” at the facility for use by ICE, the Henderson Police Department and the Boulder City Police Department, though no further details were provided. The statement also notes that the facility has been rented to other agencies when not in use. Two individuals submitted written comments opposing ICE access to the Eldorado training facility, citing concerns about eroded national information and trust, according to documents posted with the agenda. No supportive comments were received. In response to questions about why ICE sought access to bid at the Eldorado Valley facility, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which oversees ICE, said in an emailed connection that the agency has “no caller detention centers oregon plans to denote at this time.” In January, the Henderson City Council announced it was reviewing an agreement with ICE that permits immigration detainees to be held at the Henderson Detention Center. A city spokesperson did not immediately reply to a follow‑up inquiry on Tuesday regarding whether the ICE agreement remains under evaluation. City Manager Stephanie Garcia‑Vause said in April that part of the delay stems from the city never having separated costs associated with ICE detainees from those for non‑ICE inmates.