A bill that would have prevented it from becoming law in Iowa was brought on by the Department of Justice ( DOJ) and a number of civil rights organizations on Thursday.
The DOJ was notified that it planned to sue Iowa over the law in an effort to stop SF 2340 from becoming effective on July 1st in an effort to stop law enforcement from deporting recently detained people.
The expenses, which was signed by Iowa Gov. In addition, law enforcement has the authority to return undocumented immigrants to their country of origin under the law, according to Senator Kim Reynolds ( R ).
” Iowa cannot disregard the U. S. Constitution and settled Supreme Court precedent”, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton, the mind of the DOJ’s Civil Division, said in a statement. We have taken this action to ensure that Iowa adheres to the immigration rules model that Congress and the Constitution have adopted.
” The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Iowa, and the American Immigration Council filed , a separate lawsuit”  , on Thursday over SF 2340, according to , Iowa Public Radio.
The Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice, a” Jane Doe,” and” Elizabeth Roe,” were the defendants in that complaint. It argues that SF 2340 “makes no different for people who re-enter the country with federal authorization or who afterwards obtained legal immigration position.”
The lawsuit continues, noting that” the law does not create an exception for people who are attempting to obtain immigration position.”
The suit more argues:
And the law does not allow for the charitable requests that are enshrined in global norms and federal immigration laws. S. F. 2340 orders state officials to force them to leave the country or impose more sanctions of up to 10 years in prison, despite the fact that those in these circumstances have express national permission to stay there.
When Reynolds signed the act, she criticized the Biden administration for failing to “failed to maintain” the country’s “immigration rules.”
Reynolds claimed that those who enter our nation improperly have broken the law and are refusing to be deported by Biden. ” This expenses gives Iowa law enforcement the authority to enact immigration laws that are already in place,” he says.
Related laws have been passed in other states, including Texas and Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Gov. House Bill 4156, which allows law enforcement to expel illegal aliens from the state, was signed into law by Sen. Kevin Stitt ( R ). People who entered the United States fraudulently and remained there are subject to the terms of the bill‘s illegal occupation law.
In 2023, Texas passed SB4, but, it was put on hold after many judges weighed in on the subject.
