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"It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.
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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.
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President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that reverts the citizenship test back to what it was before the Trump administration changed it at the end of 2020. The changing parameters have made it “chaotic” for some of Iowa’s immigrants and their educators.
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The nation’s oldest Latino advocacy organization said it is going to partner with a Biden administration taskforce looking at COVID-19 health concerns. The League of United Latin American Citizens’ (LULAC) Iowa chapter wants to make sure its specific concerns are heard.
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Many recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in Iowa say they support the introduction of a new bill in Congress. It would allow a path to citizenship.
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Republicans on an Iowa Senate panel advanced a bill Monday that would allow the state to suspend or revoke business licenses from employers who knowingly hire people who aren't eligible to work in the United States.
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The Biden administration is expected to make changes to U.S. immigration policy and that means changes for some immigrants in Iowa.
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A woman from Mexico has found her place in Iowa by highlighting two parts of herself. She’s a mom. And she’s undocumented.
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A conversation about how a recent court decision opens the door for new applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.
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The test immigrants needed to ace to become a U.S. citizen has been replaced with a longer and more complicated version. This move has made it difficult not only for would-be citizens, but also for their educators.