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The Missouri House also passed legislation Thursday creating cross-reporting requirements for child and animal abuse cases. Here's what bills are moving through the legislature.

Owen Ramsingh, the Columbia father who was detained by ICE late last year, has been banned from the United States because of a drug possession charge from when he was a teenager. Despite efforts from the Columbia community, he was deported to the Netherlands in February.

In February, ICE agents detained three people in Milan, a town of about 1,800 people in north-central Missouri. The sudden disappearances of the community members has pushed several households to consider leaving town, which could spell doom for businesses that rely on Hispanic customers.

Advocates for ending birthright citizenship point to "birth tourism" schemes to argue that the legal principle is ripe for exploitation and threatens national security. Experts say it's not so simple.

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.