Editor's note: This article has been updated to include a statement from the Iowa Board of Regents. 

Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen sent a letter to Iowa’s congressional delegation condemning the recent ICE ruling regarding international students Monday evening. 

Since Iowa State is considered a “hybrid school,” a combination of online and in-person instruction, international students may not have to go home for the fall semester. 

The U.S. Supreme Court recently made two landmark decisions regarding workers’ rights for members of the LGBTQIA+ community and the legal status for immigrant children protected by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). 

The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end the program that protects undocumented immigrant children brought to the United States.

In the wake of George Floyd’s death, former President Barack Obama has called on every mayor in the U.S. to review force policies and police reform.

Students who are undocumented may not be able to receive the emergency grant that is part of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief act.

A large and powerful group of peaceful protesters made their way from the Pappajohn Sculpture Park to Terrace Hill on Tuesday night in Des Moines. Signs were waving and voices were ringing with the same inextinguishable fire as any other protest over the past five nights in solidarity of the death of George Floyd.

The Des Moines Capitol sidewalks were scattered with chalk messages such as “Black Lives Matter,” dusting the legs of police brutality protestors who took a knee in solidarity of George Floyd.