Here is something all Americans can agree on, whatever their feelings on immigration enforcement: United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not be harassing, let alone detaining, citizens of the United States. Nor should that…

Farmers, a solidly Republican constituency, are scratching their heads over what they see as a barrage of friendly fire. Agriculture stands out as acutely vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s avalanche of tariffs, mass deportations and…

TOPEKA — A Leavenworth District Court judge finalized his decision to bar CoreCivic from housing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement prisoners at its closed facility, rejecting the private prison company’s appeal to reconsider. Judge John…

Fifteen years ago, when Arizona enacted a notorious anti-immigrant “show me your papers” law, I wrote an essay in The Times that began, “I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon. Because I’m not going…

Unable to resist the political clickbait, President Donald Trump muscled Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier out of the limelight June 30, to celebrate the opening of a Florida first. It is…

TOPEKA — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used the pretense of a national emergency to justify a secret, no-bid contract with CoreCivic that would pay the company $4.2 million per month to house detained immigrants…

Last week it looked hopeful that U.S. farmers and those in the hospitality business would be protected from immigration raids that have ramped up in recent weeks.  After meeting with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins,…

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly —…

LEAVENWORTH — A Kansas district court barred CoreCivic Wednesday from reopening its shuttered prison until the company goes through Leavenworth’s development process to receive a special use permit. Judge John Bryant, Leavenworth County District Court,…

Universities that toe the Trump administration’s line need not worry of losing federal funding for academic research, said Education Secretary Linda McMahon Wednesday evening. “Universities should continue to be able to do research as long…