by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 13, 2021 | News, Politics & Government
Governor Kim Reynolds says 29 Iowa State Troopers are in southwest Texas, in the city of Del Rio which is on the U.S.-Mexico border. Reynolds sent the troopers after the governor of Texas asked for assistance in providing border security and the Iowa Department of...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jun 24, 2021 | News, Politics & Government
Governor Kim Reynolds is sending Iowa State Patrol officers to short-term duty at the southern borders of Texas and Arizona. On June 10, the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona asked every state for emergency assistance in border security. Reynolds joins...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jun 10, 2021 | News, Politics & Government
Iowa’s governor is asking for a congressional investigation after unaccompanied migrant children were flown into Iowa without her office being notified. Governor Kim Reynolds and Tennessee’s governor are asking the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jan 26, 2021 | News, Politics & Government
Seventeen Republicans in the Iowa Senate are co-sponsoring a bill that would force every Iowa business to use the federal E-Verify system to ensure every person they hire is a citizen or legal U.S. resident. Senator Julian Garrett, a Republican from Indianola, has...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jan 22, 2021 | News, Politics & Government
Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson says she wants “to find common ground” where she can with President Biden, but Hinson today said Biden is “taking a partisan approach” to immigration reform. “I think proposals that are too far on...