Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Prairie Village City Council unanimously rejected adopting a new Kansas law requiring a 25-foot buffer from first responders and law enforcement. However, officers can still invoke the law in the city. Here’s where other cities in Johnson County stand.

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.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction late Wednesday restricting a Homeland Security Investigations office voter fraud investigation in Missouri and eight other states, likening the tactic to voter intimidation.

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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.

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.

A few weeks ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began descending on western Kansas. More than 100 people were detained, leaving communities and the massive local beef industry to deal with the aftermath.

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.

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.

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