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More than 350 ICE detainees have spent time in the Phelps County jail this year, and more of them are on the way after a two-month pause.

This is at least the 15th ICE detainee death nationwide and the second in Missouri this year, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's website.

Owen Ramsingh was detained by ICE in Chicago last Tuesday after flying home from a three-week visit to the Netherlands. Then, he was transferred to Texas.

The move comes as President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement practices are garnering increasing criticism.

Detainees in a Cottonwood Falls jail describe sleeping on the floor in overcapacity cells. Amid a national deportation surge, this jail is one of the region’s primary immigration detention centers.

The request for help with federal immigration clerical, transportation and logistical tasks came from the Trump administration — notably the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense.

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials.

The federal agency says Brayan Garzón-Rayo did not receive a mental health evaluation due to staffing shortages that day and later testing positive for COVID-19.

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Authorities say two people have died after a crash on an ice-covered highway in north-central Missouri.The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the…