Articles Tagged: Immigrants

Roots & Recipes, a new multimedia project for students in Cedar Rapids, is telling the stories of immigrants and first-generation Americans through ancestral foods.

Four years after escaping Afghanistan during the chaotic Kabul airlift, Afghans living in Iowa say they now fear deportation as U.S. immigration policies shift.

Immigration helped stabilize Ottumwa’s population while other similarly sized towns across Iowa have face rapid population declines, some note.

States will have access to federal immigration information for the purposes of determining voters’ citizenship, and the federal government will have access to those states’ driver’s license information under a settlement reached in a lawsuit brought by Iowa.

For some, traditions look a little different in the kitchen. Here’s how families from different cultural backgrounds fold their own heritages into holiday celebrations.

More than three months after roughly 200 meatpacking plant workers in Ottumwa were notified that their work visas were being revoked, some have moved, while others have found other immigration statuses to remain and work.

In March 2024, a report revealed that more than half of Latino immigrants were chronically homeless in Johnson County. Since then, living conditions and affordability have deteriorated further for Latino immigrants as families’ providers are arrested.

Immigrant workers make up roughly 7.4 percent of the state’s workforce. Now, some might be at risk.

The law, which remains blocked, would make it a state crime for an individual to enter or be found in Iowa if that individual has previously been denied admission to or been deported from the United States.

A federal courtroom in Davenport overflowed Monday afternoon as community members gathered to show support of Jorge Gonzalez Ochoa, a Colombian immigrant who was publicly arrested last month by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Iowa City.

In her first extended statement since Friday’s arrest of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Saturday called the incident “shocking“ and said, ”We must enforce the law every time to protect our families and our future.“

Iowa Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Rob Sand blasted Gov. Kim Reynolds’ efficiency task force as partisan, vowed to veto changes to Iowa’s public pension system, and pushed for more oversight of private school vouchers at a Cedar Rapids town hall.

A man detained by authorities days after he nearly died in an Iowa shooting is one of a growing number of crime victims who have been targeted in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

A look at Eastern Iowa’s trucking industry.

Leaders of a Tuesday rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Cedar Rapids seemed happy to take the …