KVIG Informative

Nevada’s state treasurer joined 15 other state fiscal officers in telling the Trump administration something blunt: immigration enforcement is actively damaging the state’s economy, and they have a receipt to prove it.

Nevada State Treasurer Zach Conine signed a letter with 15 other state fiscal officers to President Donald Trump this month, expressing alarm over federal immigration enforcement operations they say are causing severe economic disruption nationwide.

Conine’s letter singled out one Nevada example directly: the six-week closure of Broadacres Marketplace, a North Las Vegas swap meet, last year. The letter states the closure harmed small business owners and families and eroded the state’s tax base.

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Broadacres closed on June 21, 2025, after ICE conducted an enforcement operation at a similarly owned swap meet in Santa Fe Springs, California. Broadacres management said at the time they didn’t want their roughly 1,000 vendors, employees or 15,000 weekly customers detained on their property, and closed out of what they called an abundance of caution.

The closure devastated vendors who depend on the marketplace for their livelihood. Clark County Commissioner William McCurdy, whose district includes the site, announced a $500,000 grant fund to help struggling small businesses in the area cope with the closure before Broadacres reopened Aug. 1.

Conine said in comments to a Reno television station that immigrants generate more than $20 billion in economic activity in Nevada annually, and that the state was founded and led by immigrants. He said what state fiscal officers are asking for is for the federal government to stop actively damaging communities.

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The letter asks the Trump administration to scale back enforcement activities disrupting businesses and workers, adopt enforcement policies that minimize economic disruption, and consult with state fiscal officers before launching operations that could significantly affect state economies and tax revenue.

Broadacres reopened months ago, and its vendors are back selling gorditas and micheladas on weekends. But the six weeks it sat empty are now cited in an official letter to the president as Exhibit A for what Nevada’s own treasurer says the state can’t afford to have happen again.