The Justice Department sued the state over the Republican-backed law, which creates state-level criminal penalties for some unauthorized immigrants.

The law, which was set to go into effect July 1, would allow Iowa law enforcement officials to arrest and charge non-citizens with a crime if they are in the state but have previously been blocked from entering the country or deported.

An Iowa federal judge has temporarily blocked the Republican-led state's law allowing for the arrest and prosecution of people who are in the U.S. illegally, in a win for the Biden administration.U.S.