Immigration

  • Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.

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  • ICE in Iowa: West Liberty man with no criminal record detained

    It’s happening in Iowa. Pascual Leonardo Pedro-Pedro, 20, of West Liberty, went to a routine annual immigration check-in on July 1—abiding by what the government is asking him to do as an immigrant—and was detained by ICE. Pedro-Pedro was brought to the US as a 13-year-old by his father from Guatemala. He has no criminal…

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  • No county sheriffs have signed ICE agreements in Iowa

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is raiding workplaces across the country, wearing tactical gear (and at times arriving in armored vehicles) just to arrest low-wage workers without criminal records. Deportations in this country aren’t new; what’s troubling is that President Trump is trying to give police even more immunity and less oversight, paving the way for…

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  • Immigrant rights group claims Iowa workers’ civil rights were violated in traffic stop

    Escucha Mi Voz Iowa and community members from the Iowa City Catholic Worker filed a complaint with the state, alleging an Iowa State Trooper violated the civil rights of seven Latino construction workers during an April traffic stop. The complaint demands the state clarify its own requirements of law enforcement conducting immigration actions. Seven Latino…

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  • VIDEO: Hampton businesses targeted with anti-immigrant flyers

    Earlier this month, the Latino community in Hampton, Iowa was rocked by what locals are calling a hate crime: employees of Latino-owned businesses found anti-immigrant flyers invoking Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s name posted outside their workplaces. The county GOP chair condemned the usage of Trump’s name and said the message did not align with…

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  • Immigrant Iowans, major ag workforce, wonder if they should stay here

    by Mónica Cordero, Investigate Midwest/Report for America Leer en español Having spent more than half her life in Waterloo, Iowa, she has built a life here. It’s where she met her husband and where her only daughter, who wants to become a sonographer, was born. That’s why, after a day’s work at an area meatpacking plant,…

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  • Opinion: In the wake of Tyson, let’s rethink Iowa’s immigration stance

    In Iowa, we often pride ourselves on our resilience and self-reliance. However, the truth is our state’s prosperity heavily depends on, both documented and undocumented, Black and Brown immigrants. The looming impact of the Tyson plant closure in Perry and the recent shutdown of West Liberty Foods underscores a stark reality: Without our immigrant workforce,…

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  • Advocates file suit to stop Iowa’s ‘unconstitutional’ immigration law

    Immigration advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to stop Iowa’s new immigration law—SF 2340—from taking effect arguing that the legislation creates new crimes for anyone in Iowa who has been deported in the past even if they are here legally now. A hearing date has not been set yet. The lawsuit was filed in the…

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  • Iowa Latinos rally to oppose new ‘unjust’ law targeting their community

    Iowa’s new anti-immigrant law is based on a Texas law that some argue is unconstitutional  Jose Alvarado wasn’t shocked when Republicans in the Iowa Legislature passed a bill targeting Iowa’s immigrant community, or when Gov. Kim Reynolds signed it into law. “I wasn’t surprised because I know the governor doesn’t have a good feeling about…

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