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Undocumented Youth, Concealed Carry, Alvin Sykes

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Deferred Action Immigration Program Leaves Detained Kansas City Man In Limbo

Under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a federal program announced in 2012, young people who were brought to the United States illegally as children could come of out of the shadows: go to school, work legally, and get driver’s licenses without risk of deportation. Nationally, more than 1 million young people are eligible. But some who have applied have found themselves in a kind of limbo, because you can’t receive DACA if you’re in immigration custody, even if you’re eligible.

Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals Offers Future To Undocumented Youth

It’s been a year and a half since President Obama announced the executive order that could potentially transform the lives of many undocumented immigrants.  We check in on how this program is working, and the effect it’s having on young people in the Kansas City area.

TELL KCUR: Have You Applied For A Concealed Carry Permit?

Record numbers of people have applied for concealed carry handgun permits in Kansas. More than 24,000 applied in 2013, exceeding the previous year’s applications by 50 percent. We asked if you were part of that number, and if so, why.

The Life And Work Of Kansas City Civil Rights Activist, Alvin Sykes

Kansas City native Alvin Sykes is a self-taught civil rights activist who has done instrumental work with the justice system, particularly with unsolved civil rights crimes, including the high-profile murder of Emmett Till, and the 1980 murder of Kansas City musician Steve Harvey. This month he is giving a talk at the Kansas City Public library, where he was the 2013 scholar in residence. Sykes educated himself in law and civil rights using resources from the city's public library system. He speaks with KCUR’s Laura Ziegler about his life and work.

Sylvia Maria Gross is storytelling editor at KCUR 89.3. Reach her on Twitter @pubradiosly.
Matthew Long-Middleton has been a talk-show producer, community producer, Media Training Manager and now the Community Engagement Manager at KCUR. You can reach him at Matthew@kcur.org, or on Twitter @MLMIndustries.
Every part of the present has been shaped by actions that took place in the past, but too often that context is left out. As a podcast producer for KCUR Studios and host of the podcast A People’s History of Kansas City, I aim to provide context, clarity, empathy and deeper, nuanced perspectives on how the events and people in the past have shaped our community today.

In that role, and as an occasional announcer and reporter, I want to entertain, inform, make you think, expose something new and cultivate a deeper shared human connection about how the passage of time affects us all. Reach me at hogansm@kcur.org.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Susan admits that her “first love” was radio, being an avid listener since childhood. However, she spent much of her career in mental health, healthcare administration, and sports psychology (Susan holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Bloch School of Business at UMKC.) In the meantime, Wilson satisfied her journalistic cravings by doing public speaking, providing “expert” interviews for local television, and being a guest commentator/contributor to KPRS’s morning drive time show and the teen talk show “Generation Rap.”
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