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After the Trump administration ended an immigration program for people from predominantly Spanish-speaking countries, the preschool's staff, parents and students are adjusting to a new normal—as are workplaces around the region.

Private prison company CoreCivic is temporarily barred from holding detainees at its dormant Leavenworth facility. Yet preparations to reopen are going full steam ahead.

The growth in the number of students learning English is one of several ways the district is becoming more diverse.

The new Johnson County Community College policy is meant to comply with a White House directive that says colleges must ensure "illegal aliens" do not get federal assistance. One part-time instructor has already resigned from his job in protest.

The Clinton administration once used Matthew Morrison’s U.S. immigration case to help solidify peace in Northern Ireland. Decades after moving to St. Louis to find safety and build a family, Morrison is now fleeing this country out of fear.

The leader of UnidosUS has decried the humanitarian and economic damage of the Trump administration’s immigration raids.

The immigrant-supporting group Advocates for Immigration Rights and Reconciliation confirmed Thursday night that at least three of the up to 12 people detained in raids the day before had been released.

An immigration advocacy group says the raids were carried out by Homeland Security Investigation agents about midday on Wednesday at El Toro Loco restaurants in Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas.

Jewish Vocational Service of Kansas City has already reduced services an cut staff, after the federal government ceased resettling refugees. Like other refugee resettlement agencies around Missouri, it's had to lean on community support to continue its mission.

President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has many recent immigrants terrified, hunkering down and holding onto their money. That new fear and frugality is crushing small, mom-and-pop businesses in some immigrant-heavy business corridors, like Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, just as new tariffs are raising the prices of many products that recent immigrants buy.

The family says returning to Guatemala isn't an option — even if they're forced to. "We haven't left to go anywhere," the father said. "We can't because of fear."

The Trump administration’s budget bill authorizes $45 billion for more detention centers like the one CoreCivic plans in Leavenworth, Kansas. Groups around Kansas City have organized demonstrations against the ICE facility.