Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

A for-profit detention center in Kansas that's been plagued with violence may be trying to do an end run against a presidential executive order by moving to house immigrant detainees.

An ordinance that could benefit thousands in the Kansas county has yet to make it through the unified government's board of commissioners.

For the past several years, an effort to establish a municipal ID in the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, has been stuck over a provision that would prohibit local law enforcement from coordinating with immigration authorities. Now it's become an issue in the race for mayor.

Samantha Mungai, an immigrant from Kenya, left her child alone while she went to work in July of 2017. This is the story of what participants in this case, and those who work in the system, say that parents who are Black, low income, or immigrants can face as they try to be reunited with their kids.

As federal and state courts cancel in-person proceedings amid concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, one court remains open for business, albeit not…

The KCUR news staff presents the State of Kansas City series as a look ahead to 2020 on topics of importance to the region. Find the State of Kansas City…

Segment 1: Why do some people say Missou-ree and some say Missou-rah? And what are the political ramifications of saying one or the other?It turns out…

Though he’d been deported once before, it was worth the risk for Florencio Millan to come back illegally to Kansas City, Missouri. He’d lived here off and…

Mattie Rhodes, a nonprofit that provides mental health and other services to Kansas City's immigrant communities, apologized earlier this month for…

Segment 1: Wyandotte advocates push for municipal IDs to mitigate problems faced by residents without photo identification.The Safe and Welcoming…

A Kansas City immigration lawyer who was injured while trying to assist her 3-year-old client is suing the two immigration agents who allegedly shoved her…

The Roeland Park City Council is considering an ordinance that would prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using city resources for immigration…