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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
arrest migrants who were previously denied entry or deported from the US — as she and the state attorney general vow they “will not back down.”
Iowa’s new law, which goes into effect on July 1, makes it an aggravated misdemeanor offense — punishable by up to two years in prison — for migrants to be in the Hawkeye State if they have outstanding deportation orders, were previously deported or were at one point barred from entering the US.
The law elevates the crime to a felony offense if the person’s previous removal orders were related to misdemeanor convictions for drug crimes, crimes against people or any type of felony conviction.
“The only reason we had to pass this law is because the Biden Administration refuses to enforce the laws already on the books,”
Reynolds wrote on X, signaling that she has no plans to not enforce the new law.
“I have a duty to protect the citizens of Iowa,” she added. “Unlike the federal government, we will respect the rule of law and enforce it.”