Iowa will face legal consequences if it enforces a recently passed immigration law that prohibits people from being in the state if they were previously denied entry into the United States, the Des Moines Register reported.
The Department of Justice has informed Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird that it will sue the state by May 7 if Senate File 2340 is enforced.
In April, Reynolds signed the bill into law to make it a state crime to be in Iowa if an individual had previously been denied admission or removed from the United States. At the time, Reynolds said, ‘This bill gives Iowa law enforcement the power to do what he is unwilling to do: enforce immigration laws already on the books.”
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