immigration

La actividad de agentes de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE. UU. en Kansas City y en todos los Estados Unidos inspiró a una legisladora estatal demócrata a intentar apropiarse del proyecto de ley de un republicano que decía: “ICE no tendrá jurisdicción ni poder dentro del estado de Kansas ni de sus subdivisiones políticas.”

Kansas City officials confirmed Thursday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking to build a detention facility in the metro. A south Kansas City location is one of a few potential sites, but city council members passed an ordinance aimed at blocking the center from opening.

On Thursday morning, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement toured a warehouse in south Kansas City with aims to hold detainees there. By the afternoon, city lawmakers put in place a measure to stop such detention centers from being approved.

Hundreds gathered at the Country Club Plaza to remember people who died at the hands of ICE, and the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. The vigil featured clergy, social justice organizations, immigrants and their descendants.

A protest organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation attracted more than 200 people who came out despite the wet, cold evening. Many carried signs with pictures of Renee Good, the former Kansas City woman fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis earlier this week.

American agriculture relies on foreign workers, and that workforce is already stretched thin. With Trump’s immigration crackdown set to expand next year, some farmers fear that workers will be even harder to find, and they want Trump to do something about it.

Leaders of a Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation-owned business were fired after they accepted a $30 million federal contract to assist with designing large-scale immigration detention centers. Now, Tribal Council chair Joseph Rupnick says the tribe is no longer involved in the project.

After firing the business leaders who accepted a federal contract to design immigration detention facilities, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation's chairperson compared such sites to Native American reservations.

CoreCivic applied this week to receive a special use permit from Leavenworth to reopen its prison as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee center, called the Midwest Regional Reception Center. A federal judge previously called CoreCivic's facility “an absolute hell hole.”

Health care for some immigrants was stripped away more than three months ago when President Donald Trump rescinded a rule that offered health care plans to people who migrated to the U.S. as children.

In August, federal immigration agents arrested Julio Rojas without a warrant and deported him without a hearing, leaving him separated from his young son. Court records show his only interaction with the law was a traffic ticket in 2018, which he paid off.

A Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation-owned business landed a federal contract to assist facility design for immigration detention centers. The tribe said the project does not align with its values.