Latest Kris Kobach News

Kansas once required voters to prove citizenship. That didn't work out so well

Dec. 29, 2024 11:44 AM EST

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in the new Congress requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Yet there's one place with a GOP supermajority where linking...

A key Trump ally on immigration explains how mass deportations could work

Dec. 19, 2024 00:04 AM EST

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas official who is an informal adviser to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team on immigration issues doesn't expect mass deportations to prompt arrests of migrants at sensitive locations such as schools and churches. But Kansas Attorney General...

For now, 'Dreamers' will be shut out of the health care marketplace in 19 states

Dec. 10, 2024 16:07 PM EST

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Young adult immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 U.S. states will be temporarily blocked from getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's public marketplace, a federal judge has ruled, limiting an effort by the Biden administration to help immigrants...