Iowa House lawmakers voted Thursday to create a new crime of smuggling people who are violating federal immigration laws.

Two bills on human trafficking were approved by the Iowa House Thursday. House File 572, passed 75-14, creates a new criminal offense for the act of human smuggling, defined as acts including ...

The Iowa House has passed a bill supporters say could make it easier to prosecute human traffickers and another that would make human smuggling a state crime. Legislators cited a lawsuit recently ...

Allegations against boss at Iowa egg company in immigrant workers' suit includes calling one of them a 'slave' and displaying ...

A Cedar Rapids woman accused of trafficking a Dubuque teen in May 2024 pleaded guilty to amended and lesser charges and was sentenced to up to ...

The Iowa State Cyclones have earned a 3 seed in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, and will take on Lipscomb in the first ...

House lawmakers voted Thursday to create a crime of smuggling somebody who is violating federal immigration laws, as legislators seek to combat trafficking ... directed Iowa's state law ...