Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Iowa Illegal Immigrant Law

Iowa attorney general Brenna Bird has vowed to appeal the decision.
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Iowa Illegal Immigrant Law
An Iowa State Trooper (L) assists Border Patrol in detaining illegal immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala while deployed to Texas, in Kinney County, Texas, on July 21, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked Iowa from enforcing a new law that criminalizes illegal immigrants who have been denied entry into the United States and mandates that state judges order their return to their country of origin.

U.S. District Judge Stephen H. Locher ruled on June 17 that Senate File 2340, signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, in April, is preempted by federal immigration law.