Senior Column | The DI is a learning lab like no other - The Daily Iowan

Senior Column | The DI is a learning lab like no other - The Daily Iowan

I can vividly remember my first pitch meeting as a news reporter for The Daily Iowan the Sunday before my first day of college. I remember being told that the DI is a learning lab, a place where you’re able to be a real journalist in a controlled environment. I was completely intimidated by working at a place where you’re thrown into the water and you either sink or swim. With no prior journalistic experience and imposter syndrome through the ro…

UI plaintiffs fear ICE may be creating new, unlawful policies to facilitate deportation

Lawyers for four University of Iowa international students fighting their potential deportation are now telling a federal judge they fear federal officials may have crafted a new, unlawful policy to revoke their status as students. Last month, the four students…

UI plaintiffs fear ICE may be creating new, unlawful policies to facilitate deportation • Iowa Capital Dispatch

(Main photo courtesy of the University of Iowa; form courtesy of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) Lawyers for four University of Iowa international students fighting their potential deportation are now telling a federal judge they fear federal officials may have crafted a new, unlawful policy to revoke their status as students. Last month, the four students sued Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the U.S. Department of Homeland…

Threats of deportations and ICE raids have many in the local Latinx community living in fear – BG Independent News

By JAN McLAUGHLIN BG Independent News The rash of detentions and deportations in the U.S. has many local immigrants living in fear even though they are here legally. Adults no longer attend English as a Second Language courses offered by La Conexion, fearing ICE will target those types of programs. Children worry they will come home to empty houses, with their parents being arrested while they are at school. “A number of our community members are