In a bid to make the city more hospitable to immigrants and multi-generational families, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen is weighing changes to how occupancy is calculated. As the mayor’s policy director, Casey Millburg, explained at a committee hearing last week, “The change is being made, again, because the city wants to attract and keep families, particularly larger ones.” 

St. Louis-area immigration attorneys and advocates say federal officials are targeting longtime residents as part of a nationwide push to substantially increase deportations.

Several immigrants with final orders to leave the country received text messages from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday afternoon. Many of them have been in the U.S. for years, but have been allowed to stay in the country under a government-sponsored supervision program.

As work continues to assess the scope of the damage caused by Friday's tornado, St. Louis Aldermanic President Megan Green said that the city's Rams settlement fund money could be one option to fund recovery efforts. "Everything – including the Rams settlement – is on the table,"