DACA

Roeland Park resident Evenezer Cortez Martinez was protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He sued the Trump administration after he was not allowed to reenter the country.

Evenezer Cortez Martinez, a Roeland Park resident and DACA recipient, has sued the U.S. government after he was blocked from reentering the United States last month and deported to Mexico City. The case could be a test of the Trump administration's reach.

Southwest Kansas communities are feeling the effects of intensifying anti-immigrant rhetoric in politics. Promises of mass deportations have caused anxiety to spike throughout the region, where immigrants make up a large part of the population.

Anxiety has spread through southwest Kansas after policy promises of mass deportations from the Trump administration. That mental exhaustion is now part of the daily lives of Kansans in an area where immigrants are a large part of the population.

More than 3,000 undocumented Missouri residents are in a federal program allowing them to work and go to school. They’re weighing their options as a new administration promises an immigration crackdown.

A judge blocked access to federally subsidized health insurance for people brought to the country illegally as children. Immigrant rights groups say that can ultimately cost more in tax and health care dollars.

A coalition of Republican attorneys general, including both Kansas and Missouri, sued to suspend a new federal rule allowing immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to access health care through the Affordable Care Act.

Alondra Orozco found out after graduating from nursing school that she is ineligible to be licensed as a registered nurse in Missouri because of her immigration status. Her professors were unaware of the law, but she’s not giving up.

More than 30 election-reform measures have been proposed in the Missouri legislature this year. Most disturbing, Hispanic leaders say, are those that would require voters to have government-issued photo identification to cast a ballot.

Ayuda financiera federal y estatal no son opciones para los estudiantes indocumentados en Missouri y Kansas, pero aún pueden encontrar becas para pagar la universidad.

Federal and state aid aren’t options for undocumented students in Missouri and Kansas, but they can still find scholarships to pay for college.

A Texas judge ruling prohibits the federal government from approving further applications to DACA, calling it "illegal."