Across the country, when farmworkers arrive at employer-provided housing, they often face similar problems of dead smoke alarms, moldy rooms and empty first aid kits, according to Investigate Midwest’s review of more than 6,600 inspections of H-2A housing and migrant labor camps from 19 states.
Immigrant workers and Catholic charities worry a package of bills being advanced by Iowa Republican lawmakers would criminalize and could lead to the closure of faith-based migrant shelters and civic engagement organizations to house or transport asylum-seekers.
Bill would allow state courts to order undocumented immigrants deported
Also, bill advances to limit ‘obscene performances’
During a news conference Monday at the Iowa Capitol, Reynolds repeated her criticism of how President Joe Biden’s has enforced federal immigration laws, and cast doubt that Congress will be able to pass border security legislation.
Also, bill would require teaching about patriotic holidays
Over the protests of immigrants and activists who filled Iowa State Capitol committee rooms this week, Republican lawmakers advanced bills that would put stricter limitations on undocumented immigrants.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds joined two dozen other Republican governors on Thursday to give their support to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's "right to self-defense" amid a clash between Abbott and President Joe Biden's administration over razor wire installed at the southern border.
Most of them favor a wall, deportations
Closures aim to stop migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico via trains, but Iowa Republicans say the move will slow transport of Iowa exports
Supporters argue the bill it would crack down on child trafficking as well as "child recycling," which refers to bad actors bringing children with them across the border multiple times and falsely claiming them as a relative to appear as a family unit.
Request includes aid to Ukraine and Israel as well as border security funding
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said she approved the assistance to Texas law enforcement officials to protect Iowans from the effects of illegal immigration.
Thousands of Iowa families will receive $120 in food assistance to cover the past summer months as part of the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer federal program.
State Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, will join other Iowa law enforcement officers in a deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.
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