Whether Nevada is a sanctuary state is up for debate. Whether Nevadans would embrace their home becoming a sanctuary state isn’t.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice released a list of sanctuary jurisdictions . It included many obvious places such as San Francisco and Chicago. California, Illinois and New York were among the dozen states on the list. But so was Nevada.

Gov. Joe Lombardo objected immediately .

“At Gov. Lombardo’s direction, Nevada has followed all federal laws and cooperated with federal immigration authorities,” his office noted in a statement . Furthermore, “the state has repeatedly reached out to the Department of Justice for clarification on its designation and looks forward to their timely response.”

That’s a nice way of saying Lombardo has no idea what the

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