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Green card applications that would have otherwise been denied based solely on the applicant’s HIV status have now been placed on hold, in anticipation of a rule change from U.S. Health and Human Services that will effectively end a ban that has been in existence for more than two decades.
The Sept. 15 memo, authored by [...]

Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate are pushing an artificial deadline for health care and, thus, pushing Republican lawmakers away from negotiations, Sen. Chuck Grassley said Tuesday in a statement.
Grassley also returned to two debunked rumors about the health care bill, that it will provide money for abortion and that it will provide health insurance [...]

In a letter to congressional colleagues, U.S. Rep. Steve King of Kiron is asking for support for South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson after his “You lie!” outburst during a recent presidential address.

A Jewish social justice organization is encouraging members to send a message to the new owners of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville in conjunction with the holiday Rosh Hashanah.
Jewish Community Action, an organization that has remained involved in Postville in the wake of the May 2008 immigration raid at the plant, has developed a home-printed [...]

Citing media accounts that prohibit seating of an impartial jury, U.S. District Court Judge Linda R. Reade ruled Tuesday that a trial for four former Agriprocessors supervisors will be moved to Sioux Falls, S.D.

U.S. District Court Judge Linda R. Reade agreed that four former supervisors facing charges stemming from a massive immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plan in Postville needed more time to prepare their defense and ordered Monday that the trail be postponed until Oct. 13.

I spent some time today checking up on the Web sites of Iowa political groups to see whether anything has changed, and I came upon something I hadn’t noticed before.

Responding to the media storm surrounding his statements Wednesday that government-run health care will lead to mandatory euthanasia for the nation’s elderly, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a press release standing by the debunked theory.

SIOUX CITY, S.D. — Although only about four million of the estimated 44.3 million people of Latino descent in America live in Midwestern states, cultural differences and economic realities associated with those populations have created additional challenges for rural health care delivery systems that are already stretched thin.

The marks left behind after a massive May 2008 immigration raid in Iowa are well known by those who have visited the tiny town of Postville; but, according to a new documentary from PBS, the impacts don’t end at city, state, or even national boundaries.