Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Travel bans keep Afghans who worked with U.S. troops allies separated from their families. That Trump-era policy is under legal challenge.

A Honduran man who is unlawfully in the U.S. faces a manslaughter charge in southwest Kansas.

Late last month, ICE and FBI agents swarmed the now-scientist outside his Missouri home. His family says he's faced years of unfounded scrutiny as the government alleges he's repeatedly helped a global terrorist organization.

Norma Zavala Levia had protected status in the United States. Immigration enforcement deported her anyway. Now she's fighting to get back to her family in Kansas City.

Some immigrants in Kansas City are changing their work hours and shifting other parts of their daily routine to avoid encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. A new study found last year’s surge of immigration enforcement resulted in nearly 8,000 jobs lost in Kansas City.

Immigrant communities fearful of expanding ICE enforcement are changing how they work and function in society. Their decisions are having broad economic impact.

The Sikeston Department of Public Safety and Scott County Sheriff's Office defended the ICE action and disputed claims that agents indiscriminately targeted Hispanic attendees.

The federal government's purchase of the CoreCivic-operated ICE detention center in Leavenworth is raising questions about whether the city will maintain the same level of oversight it established before the facility reopened.

"We need pathways to citizenship, but a pathway to better citizenship for us all," said Yery Castillo, a friend of the late Glendy González de la Cruz. "Citizenship that provides us access to quality, affordable health care, clean, safe housing and good-quality union jobs."

On July 11, federal immigration officers detained a U.S. citizen after he took a video showing an ICE agent backing into his car. That incident also showed an agent referencing Kansas' new "Halo Act" banning people from going within 25 feet of a first responder.

"I think our policing depends on us, and we have accountability. If mistakes are made, then they're dealt with," said Overland Mayor Marty Little. "Here, I don't feel that's happening."

People living in homeless encampments say Missouri and Kansas cities have been more aggressive about enforcement since a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision. Plus: Latino communities in Wichita are on edge after immigration agents asked a bus full of people to present proof of citizenship.