Immigration

The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph welcomes the new exhibition, A Scattering of Jades on Feb. 27 with a reception from 4-7 p.m.

With rising fears of federal immigration enforcement in the state, attendees at the annual Hispanic Capitol Day urged Missouri legislators to pay attention to their Hispanic constituents.

Performance venues and cultural organizations are seeing a spike in artists from abroad canceling performances and demonstrations — and rethinking U.S. tours.

The Unified Government's Planning Commission advanced a two-year ban on special permits for jails and detention centers. In a letter to federal officials, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids opposed any ICE detention centers in the Kansas City area.

On a recent evening, a trickle of St. Joseph residents climbed the hill north of the city’s downtown, buzzed into the Young Women’s Christian Association, and came together for a dinner of arepas and conversation across language and cultural barriers.

On Thursday morning, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement toured a warehouse in south Kansas City with aims to hold detainees there. By the afternoon, city lawmakers put in place a measure to stop such detention centers from being approved.

A protest organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation attracted more than 200 people who came out despite the wet, cold evening. Many carried signs with pictures of Renee Good, the former Kansas City woman fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis earlier this week.

The ICE 287(g) program is expanding in the Midwest, and immigration advocates say there's not enough oversight. This month, the Department of Homeland Security announced new financial incentives that could boost local involvement even further.