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A reopened private prison outside of Kansas City is already ramping up as an immigration detention facility. But resistance in both Democratic and Republican cities points to broader unease with the direction of immigration enforcement.

O'Fallon, Missouri, resident Armande Namegni was detained and jailed on Jan. 22 during a routine immigration check-in. A Cameroonian asylum seeker, Namegni had a prior nonviolent charge on her record but said it was wrongly attributed to her and never caused a problem until this year.

A Syracuse University researcher says new ICE agreements spreading across Missouri will shift immigration enforcement onto local police — with possible consequences for towns and taxpayers.

Three students at Derby High School, southeast of Wichita, tell us why they participated in an anti-ICE walkout at their school.

A push from Missouri's Republican attorney general to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.

Jose "Julian" Morales Calderon has been living in the United States since he was a baby. Even after his girlfriend posted a $450 bond, the St. Charles jail refused to release him, and ICE took him into custody.

Despite cries that it was “performative politics,” Chair Manny Abarca said the plan puts the county on record as opposing “the caging of people.” A second measure that would have barred federal immigration agents from wearing masks was held for legal concerns.

Victor López Delara was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after police stopped him for driving without a front license plate. His fiancée says she's worried that López Delara, who has no criminal history and has been in the U.S. since he was 4, now faces detainment and deportation.

With federal immigration enforcement rising across the state, attendees at the annual Hispanic Capitol Day urged Missouri legislators to pay attention to their Hispanic constituents.

Flint Development has reportedly sold warehouse property near El Paso, Texas, to build an 8,500-bed immigration detention center. The company currently has several properties in the Kansas City metro.

Johnson County-based Boots on the Ground Midwest has organized neighborhood groups, facilitated mutual aid and trained thousands of Kansas City-area residents how to legally observe and record federal immigration enforcement. Interest in their trainings spiked after the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

To prepare for increased immigration enforcement activity, Boots on the Ground Midwest has organized neighborhood groups, facilitated mutual aid and trained thousands to legally observe and record officers. Interest in their trainings spiked after the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.