The killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis have captured the nation's attention, but immigrant rights advocates in Iowa want Iowans to look closer to home. This hour, a conversation about the rights of immigrants and legal observers. Jose Yugar-Cruz joins, an immigrant from Bolivia who was recently released after a year and a half of illegal detention, talks about his experience through an interpreter. Then, attorney Lucas Asbury and community organizer Maria Acosta of Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice join the conversation to talk about the rights individuals have when they're approached, arrested or detained by ICE, as well as the rights of those who choose to act as legal observers.
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Republicans in the Iowa Legislature passed Gov. Kim Reynolds’ bill to eliminate, merge and change the duties of many state boards and commissions. Democrats criticized changes to commissions that handle human rights and civil rights issues. -
Referred to as the "Nobel prize of agriculture", the annual World Food Prize was awarded this week during the Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue held in Des Moines. -
The cofounder of the Siouxland Pride Alliance says the Sioux City Community School District isn't doing enough to support LGBTQ students.
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Using only water, flour and sugar over a stove, Isaac Campbell uses creativity and love of community to bring wheat paste murals to life. -
The Sioux City Human Rights Commission is hosting a fair housing workshop to help community members advocate for themselves. -
Charity Nebbe speaks to both the director and producer of a film that takes viewers inside Yemen to show the work being done by doctors and nurses to care for children who are suffering from extreme malnourishment. Then, an Afghan-American student talks about watching the turmoil in her home country from afar.
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An organization that receives reports on labor trafficking has found a large increase of cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The increase was largely within the agriculture sector. -
Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks met with a group of undocumented immigrants and advocates on Friday, hearing their accounts of family separation and economic hardship. She voiced support for bipartisan efforts on immigration reform, despite campaigning as a "pro-Trump conservative" and backing his border wall. -
The Iowa Commission of Latino Affairs has announced its policy recommendations to Iowa lawmakers for the year 2021.
