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Iowa Governor Defies Feds to Scare Migrants and Endanger Kids [View all]
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
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
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