Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated the city of Las Vegas as a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants , which threatens withholding of federal funds, local officials haven’t been told why.

The DHS list of hundreds of jurisdictions, which it alleges flout federal immigration laws, quietly was taken down with no further explanation.

“At this time, we’ve had no additional communication from DHS at the federal level regarding the sanctuary city list,” a Las Vegas spokesperson wrote in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

A day after the May 29 sanctuary classification, the Metropolitan Police Department signed onto an agreement to formally collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Clark County Detention Center.

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