Trump Immigration Policy

Port KC commissioners voted to terminate and refrain from any negotiations with Platform Ventures. The company owns a south Kansas City warehouse rumored to be part of a federal plan to convert such spaces into immigration detention facilities.

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.

About 50 people gathered to mourn Leo Cruz-Silva, who died by suicide in a jail in Ste. Genevieve on ICE's watch last week.

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

A Kennett, Missouri, woman went to St. Louis last month for what she thought was a routine meeting with immigration officials to renew her immigration documents. Instead, they shackled her and are now trying to deport her to Hong Kong.

Immigration enforcement rumors circulating on social media are terrifying people — and that's hurting businesses.

St. Louis-area immigration agencies and attorneys warn immigrants to renew their government documents before a potential mass deportation next year.

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