In the late 1970s, Garden City had about 14,000 residents and a low rate of unemployment. So, when the world's largest beef packing plant opened 10 miles west of town in 1980, residents knew that ...

Garden City ? Your home can be your birthplace. Or where you raise a family. Or where you bury your kin.For a growing number of immigrants, home is far west Kansas in a city of 28,000, a world ...

Garden City is made stronger by the immigrants and refugees in our midst. We are a “majority-minority” city. Latinos composed nearly half of the population in 2010, and other minority groups ...

Rural Garden City, Kansas, Immigrant Population Faces Threats Under Trump Administration Decades ago, Garden City, Kan., embraced the meat industry, and immigrants flocked there for jobs.

GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Mayor Roy Cessna looks around his small city in southwest Kansas, sees the dramatic rise in immigrants who have transformed the look and feel of it, and he smiles.

The industry set its sights on Liberal, Garden City and Dodge City. This formed what people in the area call the Golden Triangle of meatpacking plants, which relied on immigrants and refugees for ...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (Kansas Reflector) — Tom Nguyen wanted to run for office after his parents, both Vietnamese immigrants, became U.S. citizens in March. “What’s more American than to run for ...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. - Law enforcement sought Saturday to reassure immigrants in a diverse western Kansas community of their safety after three men were accused of plotting to target Somali ...

Garden City and Liberal now have two people of color on their respective city commissions. ... said immigrants in western Kansas drive the economy, and boost population by having more children.

Limited legal help for some immigrants, including unaccompanied children, is being targeted for termination by the Trump ...

Farah arrived in Garden City seven years ago and lives with her family in an apartment complex populated predominantly by Muslim immigrants and refugees. The Muslim community in Garden City started ...

Kansas program to help immigrants navigate driving exams by ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press | June 4, 2017 at 12:42 p.m.