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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will speak to the National Council of La Raza annual conference in Kansas City later this month. The former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady is scheduled to appear at the conference at the Kansas City Convention Center on Monday, July 13. “We are thrilled that Secretary Clinton will join us to speak to the thousands of Latino community leaders who will gather in Kansas City,” Janet Murguía, the organization’s president and CEO, said in a news release Thursday. “We look forward to hearing about her vision for the country and her thoughts...

Thousands of undocumented immigrants arrested in the city each year would no longer be turned over the feds under a law proposed Thursday by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. The bill would shield all immigrants who are picked up on low-level charges and are being sought by immigration authorities because they are in the U.S. illegally. That represents a major change from current policy, which is to honor most detention requests by the feds. In such cases, agents take the detainees into custody for possible deportation. Mark-Viverito’s proposal also calls for closing the office used by U.S. Immigration and Customs...