Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is suing a county that pledged to “interfere and interrupt” federal immigration enforcement raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Bird launched the lawsuit against Winneshiek County Sheriff Dan Marx after he pledged to take “every effort” to “interrupt” and “interfere” with federal immigration enforcement agents.
“Iowa is not a sanctuary for illegal immigration. Anyone who threatens to ‘block, interfere and interrupt’ with immigration enforcement, as this sheriff did, will be held accountable,” Bird asserted.
The attorney general’s statement came after Marx’s office made a post on Facebook saying that he and his staff are “always willing to assist with verifying credentials and the legitimacy of any paperwork federal agents should have to make certain your rights are not being abused.”
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