{"id":227081,"date":"2024-05-04T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T18:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=227081"},"modified":"2024-05-04T14:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T18:10:50","slug":"feds-vs-states-iowa-will-not-back-down-after-biden-administration-threatens-to-sue-if-state-arrests-deports-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=227081","title":{"rendered":"Feds vs. States: Iowa \u2018will not back down\u2019 after Biden administration threatens to sue if state arrests, deports migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Victor Nava<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration warned Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday that legal action will be taken if it enforces a new law that allows authorities to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/02\/us-news\/lawyer-for-illegal-immigrant-who-killed-mollie-tibbetts-admits-migrants-come-to-u-s-with-bad-intentions\/\">arrest migrants<\/a>\u00a0who were previously denied entry or deported from the US \u2014 as she and the state attorney general vow they \u201cwill not back down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Hawkeye State governor, a Justice Department official called the measure unconstitutional and gave the state a May 7 deadline to suspend enforcement of Senate File 2340, which Reynolds\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/10\/us-news\/iowa-governor-signs-law-allowing-police-to-arrest-some-migrants\/\">signed into law<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSF 2340 is preempted by federal law and violates the United States Constitution,\u201d Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton wrote, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2024\/05\/03\/department-of-justice-warns-lawsuit-iowa-immigration-illegal-reentry-law-kim-reynolds\/73548125007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Des Moines Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/03\/us-news\/biden-admin-threatens-to-sue-iowa-if-state-arrests-and-deports-migrants\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/03\/us-news\/biden-admin-threatens-to-sue-iowa-if-state-arrests-and-deports-migrants\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}