Iowa Governor Defies Feds to Scare Migrants and Endanger Kids

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Making Iowa a place for immigrants to avoid amid an ongoing labor shortage and eased restrictions against child labor. What could go wrong?

The latest instance of “Iowa Nice” as practiced by Gov. Kim Reynolds includes empowering the police in her state to arrest undocumented immigrants.

She thereby makes Iowa a place for immigrants to avoid when it is in the midst of an ongoing labor shortage.

Even if you were a completely legal immigrant in the county, why would you seek to settle in a state when you have to worry about becoming fair game to any cop who pulls you over?

Or, if you are an immigrant already working in Iowa, why would you stay if something better arose in an actually nice state?

The Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice has denounced the new law as a “ridiculous stunt” during an election year “in order to perpetuate partisan campaign rhetoric, drive fear in immigrant communities and mobilize voters using fear and anti-immigrant sentiment.”

more...https://www.thedailybeast.com/iowa-governor-kim-reynolds-defies-feds-to-scare-migrants-and-endanger-kids

[Backseat Driver]

1. Likely, he'll throw 'em back to the Feds when it suits him; it's the young kids who are endangered no matter

where they end up -

https://www.iaprisonind.com/store/pg/157-Who-We-Are.aspx

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Typical republican thugs, attacking the most vulnerable in our Country.

A lot of the states in the South, too, have experienced shortages of labor after their states crowed about illegal immigrants and such. And, a critical point to remember, is that these states are facing LABOR shortages. Some can't find enough people to pick their crops, etc., so crops are being left in the field, due to labor shortages. And the governor does a stunt like this? This type of move by the governor (and others) do not help their situations one bit, in reducing labor shortages.

So, on one side of the fence, the governor is towing the line to her MAGAs in Iowa (and the other states too), but the other side of the fence is that nursing homes, lawn care businesses, and many of the other businesses that rely on such labor are unable to fill their rosters of needed workers. So, is the jawboning necessary? Obviously not, as politics seems to be getting more and more in the way of truly getting things done in a lot of regions in the Country (and w/ rural populations hurting w/ the loss of their younger members), replacements aren't easy to find.