by Dar Danielson | Aug 22, 2018 | Crime & Courts, News, Top Story
The co-owner of the rural Brooklyn farming operation where the man worked who is accused of murdering Mollie Tibbetts says they took what they thought were all of the proper steps to verify that the man was in the country legally. Dane Lang says Cristhian Rivera...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 22, 2018 | Crime & Courts, News
A non-profit group is raising money to pay for the release of all 32 workers who were arrested in an immigration raid in Mount Pleasant earlier this month. While a few could pay the $10,000 bond, most are struggling to raise the money. Natalia Espina, cofounder of the...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 10, 2018 | Crime & Courts, News
Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a raid at Midwest Precast Concrete on the west side of Mt. Pleasant Wednesday resulted in the arrest of 32 men. Twenty-two of those men were from Guatemala, seven from Mexico, two from El Salvador and one...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 10, 2018 | Crime & Courts, News, Top Story
More than 30 people were arrested in southeast Iowa Wednesday in an operation carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE deportation officers and local police entered MPC Enterprises in Mount Pleasant. A spokesperson for the federal agency says...
by Matt Kelley | Feb 16, 2017 | News
Thousands of people took part in a march around the state Capitol in Des Moines today as part of the nationwide “Day Without Immigrants” movement. Organizers says dozens of Latino-owned businesses in Iowa’s capital city closed for the day to show the...
