Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.

“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.

The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.

“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’

Great yet ?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Gee…

    Wonder why people wouldn’t think Vegas is safe…

    Mayor Shelley Berkley reiterated Thursday that Las Vegas is not a sanctuary city, one day after House Republicans grilled four Democratic mayors and accused them of impeding federal immigration enforcement.

    "The city of Las Vegas is not a sanctuary city,” Berkley said in response to a question during a bimonthly press conference.“We follow federal law, and we will do everything that we are supposed to under the law in order to comply with it.”

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/las-vegas/mayor-says-las-vegas-is-not-a-sanctuary-city-3316441/

    Like, she acts like people can’t just look up what she was saying six months ago…

    “We have a responsibility, if someone comes into the municipal jail, to notify ICE, and then it’s their responsibility to take it from there,” Berkley said. “As long as the sheriff is comfortable with that and is using the resources he has to do the job that the city of Las Vegas and the county has tasked him with, then I’m very comfortable with that.”

    Why risk going to Vegas when a drunk and disordly could cause you to be held by ICE for months? Even if you legally crossed the border, ICE is detaining actual US citizens too.

    Anyone with shitty enough risk management for that to seem like a safe bet, either isn’t a gambler or already lost all their money on other stupid bets.