Posted on 05/03/2024 5:24:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If arrested and convicted under the new law, a judge can have the individual deported back to their home country. But if the person is not deported, they could be sentenced to two years in prison if its classified as a misdemeanor, or up to 10 years if its a felony and they have been arrested before.
The Justice Department warned Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, on Thursday that it would sue the state if it enforces an immigration law that bans migrants from being in the state if they have an outstanding deportation order, or if they were denied entry to the country.
Iowa's SF 2340 was signed by Reynolds last month, and criminalizes a person's being in the state if they were previously not allowed in the United States, or if they currently have deportation orders. If arrested and convicted, a judge can have the individual deported back to their home country. But if the person is not deported, they could be sentenced to two years in prison if its classified as a misdemeanor, or up to 10 years if its a felony and they have been arrested before.
The Justice Department argued that the state law is unconstitutional and violates the Immigration and Nationality Act. It gave the state until May 7 to stop the enforcement of the law.
"[The law] effectively creates a separate state immigration scheme [that] intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government and is preempted," Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton said in a letter reported by the Des Moines Register. "[It also conflicts] with various provisions of federal law permitting noncitizens to seek protection from removal to avoid persecution or torture."
Reynolds said she will not comply with the Justice Department's warning and will allow the law to...
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State nullification of the federal tyranny. This needs to be done.
Yep
Garland is the azho Obeyme wanted to put on the SCOTUS. America sure dodged a .50 cal bullet there.
Tell the feds to stuff it. If they fail to follow the law,t he states have to.
Really now?
Gonna sue Texas and Oklahoma too?
All three, probably more to follow?
bttt
It’s times like this where the Governor, State police apparatus and all the county sheriffs will let the DOJ that will not be allowed to do anything.
Banned from all but the federal buildings. No FBI or US Marshals serving subpoenas. No search warrants being executed. All will have to get past the locals.
Tell the federal judges to a train load of sand up their a$$es.
Oklahoma is in the process of doing the same or similar. I think something like 6 states have done or are in the process of similar. What are the feds going to do? Put us all in jail? How about we just with hold funds? Better fight back; and hard.
The feds have an immigration law? Who knew?
Texas is a sanctuary state the will protect American governors from liberal DemonRAT Party terrorism.
Justice Departments
Unjust Departments
Iowa just jumped up on my list of possible retirement locations.
“The Justice Department argues that the state law is unconstitutional and violates the Immigration and Nationality Act. They say the state has until May 7 to stop the enforcement of the law.”
There sure is a lot of pretzel logic pulled outta dat ass. Why do they get to sue a state anyhow? When did that chickenshit start, exactly?
Don’t they have to wait for a court case like everybody else? “No standing” and all that? Would be good to hear the arguments too. Americans were never consulted on any of this, and they damn sure never voted for it.
Iowa just cut income taxes by quite a lot. I think their end game is to have zero incomes taxes like some other states. At least if conservatives remain governing.
“We” have rights, and laws. “They” have duties & responsibilities- that they purposely refuse to acknowledge much less enforce. But they refuse to allow anyone else to do the job they won’t do, even though it is required.
Pretty neat, huh?
I wouldn’t retire in Iowa, but it one of the best places in the world to raise a family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965
January 2017, President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13769 temporarily halted immigration from seven majority-Muslim nations.[63] However, lower federal courts ruled that the executive order violated the Immigration and Nationality Act’s prohibitions of discrimination on the basis of nationality and religion. In June 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court overrode both appeals courts and allowed the second ban to go into effect, but carved out an exemption for persons with “bona fide relationships” in the U.S. In December 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the full travel ban—now in its third incarnation—to take effect, which excludes people who have a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.[64] In June 2018, the Supreme Court upheld the travel ban in Trump v. Hawaii, saying that the president’s power to secure the country’s borders, delegated by Congress over decades of immigration lawmaking, was not undermined by the president’s history of arguably incendiary statements about the dangers he said some Muslims pose to the United States.[65]
Iowa needs to sue DOJ’s ass for violating the Constitution. It’s their job to stop the illegal invasion of America. The third world UN Rats sure aren’t going to do it.
Reynolds said she will not comply with the Justice Department’s warning and will allow the law to continue because of the Biden administration’s stance on immigration.
“The only reason we had to pass this law is because the Biden administration refuses to enforce the laws already on the books,” Reynolds said in a statement. “I have a duty to protect the citizens of Iowa. Unlike the federal government, we will respect the rule of law and enforce it.”
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