LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Several unions from across Southern Nevada gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas to protest recent immigration raids happening across the country, despite scorching triple-digit temperatures .

WATCH | Jhovani Carrillo reports on site where demonstrators are protesting recent immigration policy and enforcement Las Vegas unions protest against immigration raids despite triple-digit heat

The demonstration was partly in response to the arrest of David Huerta, the regional president of SEIU union in Los Angeles, who was taken into custody last Friday while protesting similar raids there.

"We are coming together for immigrant families, for workers in general, so this country wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't for immigrants," said Erika Watana

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