Iowa can't enforce its own immigration law, U.S. appeals court says. But with Justice Department in new hands, future of statute unclear

A lower court had blocked the Republican-backed law that made it a state crime to enter Iowa after being deported or denied entry to the United States.

A federal appeals court is siding with the Biden administration’s Department of Justice and keeping a temporary block on an Iowa immigration law.

A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld the injunction blocking enforcement of an Iowa law that makes illegal immigration a state crime. The Friday decision denied an appeal from Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird,