Articles Tagged: Immigration

Immigration was the biggest factor in population growth for many booming Sun Belt counties as well as for the agricultural Midwest including counties in Iowa, according to a Stateline analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.

The Trump administration on Friday moved to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma brought by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice, which challenged the states' immigration laws making it a crime for someone to be in the state if they are in the U.S. illegally.

The Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau recaps the first funnel deadline of the 2025 legislative session.

Also, Iowa lawmakers advanced a proposal to limit how often owners can raise rent in mobile home parks

The new legislation would make it a felony for any Iowa law enforcement officer who knowingly and intentionally fails to cooperate with federal immigration officials

Also in the Capitol Notebook: A bill criminalizing ‘smuggling’ of noncitizens advances in Iowa House.

State and local law enforcement officers in Iowa would have to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in apprehending and detaining individuals who are in the country illegally under a bill in the Iowa Legislature. Everyone who spoke at a subcommittee hearing Thursday was either opposed to the bill or undecided.

Named executive director of the Catherine McAuley Center on Jan. 14, Anne Dugger took the helm of the nonprofit service provider for refugees, immigrants, women and adult learners. Here’s her vision.

Songs, chants and prayers rose up from in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in southwest Cedar Rapids Tuesday morning as community members gathered in the cold to rally in support of immigrants visiting the office for their required check-ins with federal immigration officials.

Amid confusion over Trump funding freeze, Hinson pledges to prevent ‘woke spending sprees’

This recap of the week in Iowa politics includes the special election to fill a vacant Iowa Senate seat, immigration, ticket bots and a casino moratorium.

Iowa driver's licenses would list citizenship status under a bill aiming to home in on verifying voters' citizenship status at the polls.

The spread of misinformation has fueled anxiety and alarm within Iowa’s Latino immigrant community. It is estimated that the state is home to more than 52,000 undocumented immigrants.

A state law that would allow the arrest and deportation of immigrants in Iowa if they had previously been denied entry into the country will remain blocked after a federal appeals court ruling issued Friday.

Fresh off President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate on Monday passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes, the first measure he likely will sign into law and giving more weight to his plans to deport millions of migrants.