immigration

At issue is the TPS program, which permits eligible individuals to live and work in the United States if they cannot return to their home countries because of "extraordinary or temporary conditions." Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is supporting the Trump administration's efforts to end the program.

Kansas City students were welcomed by organizers with the Missouri Workers Center and Sunrise Movement KC to protest federal immigration enforcement and data centers.

Some fans in the U.S. and around the world are unhappy with World Cup ticket prices — and U.S. immigration policies. So they're deciding not to come, raising concerns across the travel industry.

Bluffs up to 120 feet tall once hugged the Missouri River by Kansas City, making it difficult to traverse the landscape and expand the growing town. So in the mid-1800s, a Catholic priest named Father Bernard Donnelly recruited hundreds of Irish immigrants for a dangerous but critical task: digging streets for the city from rocks and mud.

Prairie Village-based Flint Development sold a Texas warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for use as an immigration detention facility. Local activist group The People for Prairie Village is protesting and calling for the company to cut ties — or leave town.

Immigration-related flights in and out of Missouri increased more than 200% in the first year of the Trump administration. Kansas City International Airport is central to these deportation efforts, but there's almost nothing KCI or the city can do.

Joe Ceballos, former mayor of Coldwater, is a legal resident, but not a citizen. He pleaded guilty Monday to voting illegally, saying it was a mistake. It’s not yet clear if he’ll face deportation.

Since January 2025, more than 3,200 people from nearly 80 countries have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Missouri. We learn about new figures obtained through a public records lawsuit released by the Deportation Data Project.

Sarah Saldaña, who served as the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the final two years of Barack Obama’s presidency, is in Kansas City for an American Public Square event on Wednesday. She joined KCUR’s Up To Date to discuss the agency's tactics under the Trump administration.

Despite efforts from the Columbia community, Owen Ramsingh, the Columbia man detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year, has been deported to the Netherlands. Ramsingh is now adjusting to his new home.

As arrests have climbed in President Trump's second term, advocates and attorneys across the state say undocumented immigrants live in fear.

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.