Kansas City declares itself an LGBTQ+ sanctuary city
Kansas City’s new sanctuary status sets it apart as a Democratic-leaning city in a state with a Republican governor and GOP-controlled Legislature.
By Associated Press - May 12, 2023Kansas City’s new sanctuary status sets it apart as a Democratic-leaning city in a state with a Republican governor and GOP-controlled Legislature.
By Associated Press - May 12, 2023A 10-year-old placed on a bus transporting migrants from Texas to Pennsylvania needed treatment at a hospital after reportedly suffering from dehydration and a high fever.
By Associated Press - November 16, 2022Planned Parenthood, which accounts for about half of California’s abortion clinics, said it served 7,000 people from other states last year.
By Associated Press - December 09, 2021Migrant activism has roots in the 1981 founding of the Sanctuary Movement, which spread more than 500 U.S. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish congregations, drawing on the ancient tradition of protecting people inside houses of worship.
By Associated Press - June 13, 2021Republicans are unhappy that ICE officials are no longer issuing detainers for some people under current administration policy.
By Amy Lieu - April 07, 2021An estimated 38 immigrants are currently taking sanctuary from deportation.
By Associated Press - February 07, 2021Now that Biden has moved to reform immigration, Senate Republicans are retaliating.
By Donna Provencher - January 29, 2021‘This effort is intended only to inflame tensions and divide us.’
By Associated Press - September 04, 2020The administration sought to undermine a sanctuary law limiting local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
By Associated Press - June 15, 2020Donald Trump is threatening to condition critical coronavirus aid to states on changes to sanctuary city policies.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 29, 2020Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey wanted to put a ban on sanctuary cities in the state constitution.
By Associated Press - February 21, 2020The units have been described as the ‘SWAT team of the border patrol.’
By Oliver Willis - February 14, 2020