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The hearing for about a dozen children took place less than two weeks after a group of legal services providers sued the federal government for ending deferred deportation for minors with Special Immigrant Juvenile status.

The Phelps County Jail in Rolla has transferred out most of its detainees held solely on federal immigration detainers. Some detainees were sent to the for-profit prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.

More children from mixed-status families in the Midwest are being separated from their parents through detention or deportation. Researchers and advocates believe the trauma of being split up predisposes a generation to health, academic and economic consequences.

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.

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.

Most Midwestern states have little to no regulations of Flock Safety cameras or other automated license plate readers. As surveillance companies face bipartisan backlash, that is likely to change during the next legislative session.

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.

The Caribbean country of Haiti is in the midst of a severe political and humanitarian crisis as it struggles to address widespread gang violence. Ahead of the 14th annual KC Haiti Symposium on Saturday, KCUR's Up To Date spoke with two journalists who cover Haiti and a Kansas City doctor who runs a surgicenter in the country.