Syrian Refugees

At issue is the TPS program, which permits eligible individuals to live and work in the United States if they cannot return to their home countries because of "extraordinary or temporary conditions." Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is supporting the Trump administration's efforts to end the program.

Leaders from the Syrian community of Kansas City say they are relieved by the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, following a 13-year civil war. "We ask everybody to leave us alone and rebuild our country by ourselves," says the president of Overland Park-based nonprofit Mercy Without Limits.

A Sudanese woman gathered her six grandchildren to explain the family’s 1996 escape to Ethiopia from war-torn Sudan. The children had not yet been born…

Sunday afternoon, refugees, volunteers and community members gathered at the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City to celebrate the one-year anniversary…

Buried within the president’s executive order that, among other things, suspends the U.S. refugee program, there’s a provision that’s garnered little…