A new agreement between the State of Iowa and the Meskwaki Nation makes it clear Meskwaki Police have the authority to pursue and arrest suspects who travel outside the tribe’s settlement near Tama. In 1948, Congress gave the State of Iowa jurisdiction over all crimes committed on the Meskwaki settlement near Tama, but that law […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






