immigration

About two months after his death in ICE custody, Brayan Garzón-Rayo's family buried his ashes with support from the Ashrei Foundation.

President Donald Trump has said his mass deportation campaign prioritizes immigrants who have committed violent crimes. But the family of a crime victim in Kansas City, Kansas, said authorities detained him, even though he was about to receive immigration protections.

Jose Madrid-Leiva applied for a type of visa for crime victims and authorities said he qualified for immigration protections. His detention suggests a new frontier in immigration enforcement.

A U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of a private prison company that plans to use its troubled Leavenworth facility for immigration detention. The city argued CoreCivic should follow local laws first.

Ozark County reached a contract with ICE to help the Trump administration carry out immigrant detentions and deportations. And the rural Missouri county is reaping the benefits by raising wages and hiring for new law enforcement positions.

Immigration courts in Kansas City have put up notices urging defendants to admit guilt and leave the country. Critics say the flyers are another way that the Trump administration is undercutting due process.

The Trump administration’s plans for expanded immigration detentions include Kansas. While a 1,000-bed facility in Leavenworth is on hold, the majority of the state’s detention plays out in a Flint Hills jail.

The federal agency says Brayan Garzón-Rayo did not receive a mental health evaluation due to staffing shortages that day and later testing positive for COVID-19.

A Roeland Park man legally protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was not allowed to reenter the United States after visiting a family grave in Mexico. He's now back on U.S. soil, after he sued the Trump administration. Hear what Evenezer Cortez Martinez has to say about his experience.

The teachers union at Wichita State University says more than two dozen international students have had their visas revoked and face deportation or other consequences under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Además de su celebración anual del Cinco de Mayo, la Central Avenue Betterment Association- CABA (Asociación para el Mejoramiento de la Avenida Central) organizó la “Manifestación Por El Bien de Todos”. La demostración tuvo como objetivo destacar y apoyar a la creciente población de residentes mexicanos de la zona en medio de un ambiente político cada vez más hostil hacia los latinos en Estados Unidos.

In addition to its yearly Cinco de Mayo celebration, the Central Avenue Betterment Association organized the “Good Of All People’s Rally.” The demonstration aimed to highlight and support the area’s growing population of Mexican residents amid an increasingly hostile political environment for Latinos in America.