Columbia Missouri

Owen Ramsingh, the Columbia man who was detained by ICE late last year, has been banned from the United States. Despite efforts from the Columbia community, he was deported to the Netherlands in February.

Missouri voters enshrined the right to an abortion in 2024, but several abortion restrictions remain state law. A Jackson County judge temporarily blocked those laws, and Planned Parenthood is now seeking to permanently strike those laws to ease abortion access.