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

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.

A federal judge blocked an Iowa law that would have allowed state law enforcement to arrest some undocumented migrants in the state after both the federal government and a migrant advocacy group sued.