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4 days ago | hastingstribune.com | Grace Hills

By Grace Hills Rekha Sharma-Crawford, an immigration attorney based in Kansas City who filed a federal lawsuit against the termination of international students' statuses, appears on the Kansas Reflector podcast on May 5. (Grace Hills/Kansas Reflector)

4 days ago | kansasreflector.com | Grace Hills

8:36 Podcast Immigration attorney Rekha Sharma-Crawford filed a federal lawsuit against the sudden termination of five international students status terminations — and has successfully temporarily blocked the terminations. She argues that the terminations were cruel, opaque, and have significantly harmed the students’ wellbeing. Keep reading:Kansas City immigration lawyer fighting against Trump blocking immigrants from access to college Transcript of this episode

4 days ago | kansasreflector.com | Grace Hills

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Immigration attorney Rekha Sharma-Crawford filed a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s attempts to block five international students from their college educations — and so far, she’s winning. Court records show that on April 24, a judge granted Sharma-Crawford’s motion for a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration revocation of their legal status as students . On May Wednesday, the judge extended the order to May 21.

1 week ago | ctnewsonline.com | Grace Hills

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1 week ago | kansasreflector.com | Grace Hills

TOPEKA — An estimated 138,776 Kansas school-age children could have received free summer meals last year — their families just didn’t submit the application. Of the estimated 148,000 children eligible for SUN Bucks pending application, according to the Kansas Department for Children and Families, there were applications submitted for 9,961 children. The program, also known as the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer program, gives families a $120 summer grocery card per eligible school-age child.