by Dar Danielson | Mar 19, 2021 | News
The three Republicans who serve in the U.S. House have voted against bills that would create a path to citizenship for so-called Dreamers who were illegally brought into the U.S. as children and for farm workers living in the U.S. without authorization. Congresswoman...
by Matt Kelley | Oct 22, 2019 | Crime & Courts, News, Politics & Government
Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley is taking part in a Judiciary Committee hearing today on so-called sanctuary cities and their impact on public safety. Iowa banned sanctuary cities and counties with passage of a state law last year that revokes state funding to places...
by Dar Danielson | Jan 31, 2019 | News, Politics & Government
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst today remembered Sarah Root of Council Bluffs on the third anniversary of her death. “Sarah, who was 21 years old at the time. Was struck and killed on the night of her graduation by an illegal immigrant who was drag racing and driving...
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 24, 2018 | News, Politics & Government
Governor Kim Reynolds says she is open to discussing creation of a state-level system to confirm people applying for work in Iowa are U.S. citizens or have some sort of legal residency status. “I know there are some states that have done that and it’s been...
by Dar Danielson | Aug 23, 2018 | Crime & Courts, News, Politics & Government
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says the quick turn to a discussion of illegal immigration in the death of Mollie Tibbetts is not politicizing the issue. The Republican from Red Oak says Tibbetts was missing for more than a month before a man who is in the country illegally...