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A coalition of Republican attorneys general, including both Kansas and Missouri, sued to suspend a new federal rule allowing immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to access health care through the Affordable Care Act.

About 100,000 immigrants living in the Kansas City region are naturalized residents and each one requires a medical examination before getting citizenship. However, affordable options for the examination are few.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and public radio host Maria Hinojosa will be in Kansas City on Thursday for a conversation about her memoir "Once I Was You."

Alondra Orozco found out after graduating from nursing school that she is ineligible to be licensed as a registered nurse in Missouri because of her immigration status. Her professors were unaware of the law, but she’s not giving up.

President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would begin deporting undocumented people on the first day of his term. His “largest deportation" in the country's history plan could affect tens of thousands of people across the region.

The Republican senator expects Republicans will work on overhauling the country’s tax code and pare down governmental regulations priorities. He cast doubt that lawmakers will have enough support to curtail abortion access nationwide.

Students at Guadalupe Centers High School have spent weeks learning about specific races, ballot measures and candidates — even though many of them can't vote yet.

Racist and nativist rhetoric has made headlines in the 2024 election, and immigrants and refugees around Kansas City have taken notice. Plus: One of Missouri's few openly gay Republican lawmakers says his vote on transgender rights cost him his party's support — and reelection.

A plurality of Kansas voters feel that immigrants to the state have had a negative impact. But the largest industries even in rural Kansas rely heavily on immigrant labor for the state’s economy.

Kansas Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids is running for reelection against Republican Prasanth Reddy for the U.S. House 3rd District. In their only scheduled debate, the two candidates shared sharp exchanges over abortion rights, the border and other issues.

With many Republicans promoting anti-immigrant and racist messaging in the 2024 election, and support for deportations and other tough immigration policies, the director of KC For Refugees says her community feels increasingly isolated.

New polling from The Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling Center highlights the views of voters in four states — including Missouri and Kansas — on political and social issues like abortion, control of police, and more.