Articles Tagged: Immigration

Iowa legislators not alone in proposing changes to sentencing, police training and immigration enforcement agreements.

This week on the On Iowa Politics podcast, we discuss multiple pieces of controversial legislation at the Iowa Capitol, federal immigration enforcement, and a bill to lure the Chicago Bears to Iowa.

The proposed legislation also would change Medicaid income limits for disabled Iowans.

Iowa House Republican lawmakers advanced a bill by Gov. Kim Reynolds that would codify an executive order she signed last fall requiring state agencies to verify employment eligibility for new hires through the federal E-Verify system and to confirm immigration status or U.S. citizenship before granting professional licenses.

Students from three high schools in the Iowa City district were joined by some middle school and University of Iowa students as they walked out of class Thursday to protest actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

Republican lawmakers also asked the district officials about their plans to improve citizenship verification measures.

Republican state legislators are advancing bills that would strengthen requirements for educators’ hiring and licensing, and increase penalties for school applicants who falsify resume information.

Jose Yugar-Cruz entered the Department of Homeland Security Office in southwest Cedar Rapids Tuesday morning, not knowing if he would be allowed to leave.

Over the past month, the Minnesota Star Tribune has broken stories, including the identity of the immigration enforcement officer who shot Renee Good, and produced a variety of informative and instructive pieces.

About 200 people gathered Sunday evening outside the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center for a candlelight vigil honoring Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, union member and federal worker killed last month by federal agents in Minneapolis.

Close to 200 students at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids walked out of school at noon Friday as part of a nationwide protest calling for “no work, no school, no shopping” to oppose federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities. A little more than two miles away, about a 100 more people protested near Coe College in downtown Cedar Rapids.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has joined 20 other Republican attorneys general in urging a federal appeals court to lift restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, pushing back against a judge’s ruling that barred federal agents in Minneapolis from arresting peaceful protesters, or using nonlethal munitions and crowd control tools against them.

A federal judge orders the immediate release of the Russian immigrant from the Polk County Jail in Des Moines.

They have agreed to separate Homeland Security funding from the rest of the legislation and fund DHS for two weeks while they debate Democratic demands for curbs on ICE.

Entertainers, tech executives and athletes increasingly voicing concern about ICE tactics in Minneapolis and beyond