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Hispanic community in Las Vegas scared after immigration raid

Las Vegas, NV- A local family says they were broken up following an immigration raid this week by Homeland Security. Now others in the Hispanic community say they're afraid they could be next.

Today we're learning more about the raid at a local bus station. It wasn't the only one. Several other similar small businesses were also raided with a total of 31 people detained by border patrol agents.

Now the Hispanic community is afraid they will become victims of what they call abuse and profiling. The owner of Las Vegas Shuttles remembers men walking into his business, and demanding documents from everyone.

"It doesn't make any sense at all because this isn't a border city," says Emmanuel Corrales, the owner.

Border patrol agents searched and treated everyone with disrespect says Corrales.

"You don't expect to be treated like a stranger in your own country. I'm a U.S. citizen myself and I don't expect to be here in a bus station and getting asked for my documents," he says.

Now he says the Hispanic community lies in a state of fear.

"They don't want to travel. They don't want to go out. They don't want to get their haircut."

Friday night, Hispanic leaders from several community organizations and churches called an emergency meeting.

"(We) had a conversation about how do we get out those facts the easiest from what is a rumor to what is true," says Michael Flores with Progress Now Nevada.

A big part of getting that information out includes the churches.

"A lot of the pastors feel that they have a big obligation because they have so many members that are undocumented, and they feel as pastors they need to speak up for their members," says Flores.

As they try to calm the community from fears of being deported or harassed.

"I saw what happened yesterday. I saw the way they treated all my clients. I didn't like it. I didn't feel well. I saw the way they treated me. I'm not comfortable in this city. I'm not comfortable in this country. I love this country, but I'm not comfortable today," says Corrales.

Action News spoke with the Department of Homeland Security. All they would tell us is that they specifically picked "transportation sites that are used as a means to further illegal trafficking" of drugs or humans.

When asked if they found drug traffickers or human smugglers known as coyotes, all they say is that of those captured some did have criminal or immigration records.