Immigration

One bill being discussed in the Senate would include life imprisonment without parole as a punishment for immigration violations, and would allow Missourians to collect $1,000 bounties for reporting people who are in the country without legal status.

Senate Bills 58 and 72 both seek to create provisions and punishments for undocumented immigrants. Those there to oppose the bills more than tripled those there in support.

The ACLU warns CoreCivic’s Leavenworth facility and others could play a role in President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans

The Republican senator cast doubt that lawmakers will have enough support to curtail abortion access nationwide.

The U.S. border with Mexico is a favorite topic for the political ads this election cycle. That's because the southern border is what political scientists call a wedge issue.

Speaker Dean Plocher has created a committee aimed at looking at crimes done by undocumented immigrants.

Republican gubernatorial candidate’s plan to use military powers in the Missouri Constitution recalls the mass removal of Mormons from Missouri in the 1830s under the infamous ‘Extermination Order’.

The heart of the argument is whether Delta Extraction violated state law by selling THC concentrate derived from out-of-state hemp.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced a plan Tuesday to add 200 Missouri National Guard members and 22 state highway patrol troopers to the 250 guardsmen already deployed to southern border by next month.

Across the U.S., thousands of children and young adults serve as informal interpreters for family members that don’t speak English. Many of them find pride in being of service to their families, but experts worry that this pride may be masking more serious long-term effects.