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Paul J. Essel has been a grants accounting manager at Missouri State since 2019. He is originally from Ghana. Greene County Jail records indicate Essel was detained by ICE in Springfield Wednesday afternoon.

Dominique Moore was one of a half-dozen protesters demonstrating against policies to hold ICE detainees in the Greene County Jail. The group was arrested during a sit-in in August.

Six activists affiliated with the Southwest Missouri Immigration Alliance and the group the ReSisters Alliance were detained for trespassing at the Greene County Jail Wednesday.

The decision by Nixa's City Council came after over an hour of public input.

Since Carol Mayorga left her home in Kennett — a rural town in the state's Bootheel area — for her appointment with immigration officials in St. Louis earlier this spring, ICE officials have ping-ponged her throughout rural Missouri jails, including Greene County Jail in Springfield and Phelps County Jail in Rolla. She’s expected to be deported to Hong Kong.