On Thursday, a “top official” at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) wrote to Iowa’s Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa’s Attorney General Brenna Bird threatening the state with legal action over Iowa’s new law dealing with illegal immigration. Iowa’s response has been, in effect, to tell the DOJ that they will not comply.
The U.S. Department of Justice will sue Iowa to block a new immigration law criminalizing “illegal reentry” if it remains in effect, a top DOJ official wrote to Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird Thursday.
In a letter obtained by the Des Moines Register, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton wrote that the department “intends to bring a lawsuit to enforce the supremacy of federal law and to enjoin” the new immigration law passed as Senate File 2340.
“SF 2340 is preempted by federal law and violates the United States…
