Bill that requires Iowa law enforcement to enter written agreement with ICE advances out of subcommittee

Law agencies could be required to assist ICE

State and local law enforcement officers in Iowa would have to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in apprehending and detaining individuals who are in the country illegally under a bill in the Iowa legislature that critics are calling "anti-immigrant."

Bill that requires Iowa law enforcement to enter written agreement with ICE advances out of subcommittee

The immigration bill would require all Iowa law enforcement agencies to enter a written agreement with ICE by 2026.

Immigration enforcement campaign aimed at local governments, employers advances to Senate

House lawmakers on Thursday tussled briefly over legislation mandating local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and cracking down on employers using unauthorized labor.

Politics Notebook | Iowa House lawmakers advance bill requiring local law enforcement cooperation with ICE - The Daily Iowan

Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday requiring law enforcement agencies across the state to cooperate with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE. The bill would require local and state law enforcement agencies to enter into an agreement with ICE to identify and process the removal of immigrants lacking permanent legal status who are arrested by the agencies for pending or filed criminal charges. The bill, House Study Bi…

Iowa House bill would require local law enforcement cooperate with ICE

Lawmakers advanced House Study Bill 187 Thursday, which would require every law enforcement agency in the state to enter into written memorandums of agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Iowa bill would require local law enforcement to help ICE

The lone Democrat on the three-person house judiciary subcommittee opposed the legislation.