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Ukrainians in the St. Louis region are worried about their futures in the U.S. now that their Temporary Protected Status will expire on Oct. 19. U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell is urging Congress to quickly work on extending TPS because Ukrainians cannot safely return to their war-torn country.

Paul J. Essel has been a Grants Accounting Manager at Missouri State since 2019. He is originally from Ghana. Greene County Jail records indicate Essel was detained by ICE in Springfield Wednesday afternoon.

A few weeks ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began descending on western Kansas. More than 100 people were detained, leaving communities and the massive local beef industry to deal with the aftermath.

Immigration enforcement targeted western Kansas with sweeping actions over the last week, leaving people with and without legal status reeling. The beef industry that employs thousands in the area is working to get back on track.

Some Wichita City Council members said they want to prohibit local police from partnering with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The arrests of plant workers and others around southwest Kansas began Tuesday, causing alarm and confusion across the region, where immigrants make up a large portion of the agriculture workforce.

After federal immigration enforcement action in western Kansas, a meatpacking plant delayed some shifts Wednesday and a school district warned that students may have had family members detained.

The law, passed with bipartisan support in 2004, offered the same tuition rate that locals pay to immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who completed a high school education in Kansas and agreed to seek citizenship while pursing a degree.

A Honduran man who is unlawfully in the U.S. faces a manslaughter charge in southwest Kansas.

Late last month, ICE and FBI agents swarmed the now-scientist outside his Missouri home. His family says he's faced years of unfounded scrutiny as the government alleges he's repeatedly helped a global terrorist organization.

The Haitian community around Kansas City is generations deep and growing, filled with nurses, dentists and other health professionals. Newer arrivals fear deportation after courts allowed the Trump administration to strip 330,000 Haitian refugees of "temporary protected status."

There’s a chance your next bowl of cereal or protein shake will include milk that came from Kansas. Dairy production in the state has quadrupled over the last couple decades, and that growth rests on the shoulders of immigrant workers in rural Kansas.