Articles Tagged: Immigration

Getsy Hernandez has only been working as a community organizer for Iowa City nonprofit Escucha Mi Voz for about four months, but she said it feels like she’s been doing it her entire life.

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.

“Losing 3,000 jobs in a city of 10,000 to 12,000 people is as big a closing event as we’ve seen virtually for decades,” economic expert says of looming closure in Lexington, Nebraska.

In November, the Department of Homeland Security terminated temporary protected status for Haiti, meaning Haitians living in the U.S. under the program will lose that designation on Feb. 3, 2026. Immigrants such as Fils Dieune Duperval are left with two time-sensitive options: leave America yourself or be forced to.

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Thursday, against a resolution that would have affirmed the county’s commitment to upholding protections outlined in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors will consider adopting a resolution next week to affirm the county’s commitment to upholding protections outlined in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The mention of Henrique Braun’s citizenship was unusual for a U.S.-based company, and raised the question of whether it was done for geopolitical reasons

Three organizers with Escucha Mi Voz, a nonprofit that hosts regular accompaniment rallies for immigrants attending immigration check-in appointments at the Department of Homeland Security Office in Cedar Rapids, were issued trespass warnings Wednesday morning after two of them crossed a police tape barrier to talk with people waiting in line outside the office, according to a news release from the nonprofit.

Hundreds of community members huddled together Tuesday morning outside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Cedar Rapids to show their support for more than 50 immigrants who were attending regular check-in appointments with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

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.

Alejandra Escobar is comfortable in front of a crowd, and not just because of her work as a protest organizer. She has been studying and performing music for most of her life, and before she started working for Iowa City nonprofit Escucha Mi Voz, she was pursuing a doctorate degree in piano performance at the University of Iowa — a program she never finished, because she decided to dedicate her time to advocacy work instead.

The number of immigrants arrested by ICE in Iowa this year is at an all-time high, and many of those arrested do not have criminal convictions, despite repeated claims by President Donald Trump’s administration that increased immigration enforcement this year is meant to target dangerous criminals.

Amid a nationwide ICE crackdown, Nebraska immigration lawyers say their jailed clients — including some from Iowa — are spending more time behind bars while awaiting decisions from one of the nation’s most backlogged courts.

Iowa's largest school district released a report Friday claiming that it received an abbreviated background check and what was likely a forged transcript when it was hiring its former superintendent, who was charged in a federal indictment with falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen on a federal form.

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.