Oooohhh!
Ma; if I ain't back in time fer plowin', do NOT till up the back 40.
That's whir muh guns are hidden in them canisters.
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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I live alone, and I’m looking for a small quiet town to retire to. I was looking at Kansas and Nebraska, but Kansas taxes social security income, and both Kansas and Nebraska have high capital gains taxes that look to go even higher. I know an Air Force pilot who grew up in Iowa and he swears by it. But an eminent move isn’t on the horizon so I got time to make a decision.
Kind of like being a sanctuary state for the U.S. Constitution!? Refugee status if you will.
"Asylum asylum! Asylum for the Constitution!"
Iowa ‘will not back down’ after Biden administration threatens to sue if state arrests, deports migrants
DOJ needs to be gutted
Ma; if I ain't back in time fer plowin', do NOT till up the back 40.
That's whir muh guns are hidden in them canisters.
Well; don't look at Indiana!
We have some of the WORST hicks and we gots guns.
And our roads are bad.
But we duz have a nice little race later this month. You can come watch that - leave some money - then skedaddle back home to work out yer OWN problems there.
And when Deep State yanks federal aid to the state refusing to comply...?
Not one state in this country has done anything to protect its budgets and taxpayers from Deep State.
Not one.
I live in Indiana.............
Then you know what I mean!
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