DOJ Set To Sue Iowa Over Harsh Immigration Law
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
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Summary
The Justice Department is set to take a significant step this week, initiating a lawsuit against Iowa over its new immigration law. This law, which criminalizes the entry of individuals previously deported or barred from the country, mirrors the controversial Texas law. The latter is currently under legal scrutiny. Notably, other Republican-led states are also contemplating similar legislation. Spencer Amdur, a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, sheds light on the rationale behind these stringent state immigration laws and why federal courts have invalidated similar state laws.
And in headlines: Adult film star Stormy Daniels described in explicit detail a sexual encounter she had with Donald Trump during testimony in the former president’s criminal hush-money trial, TikTok sued the federal government over a new law that could ban the app in the U.S., and Israeli forces seized control of the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 8th. |
| 0:02.9 | I'm Priyanka Arabindi. |
| 0:04.1 | And I'm Juanita Tulliver, and this is what a day, |
| 0:06.1 | the show where we're thinking that Donald Trump's chances |
| 0:08.6 | of receiving a Father's Day card from his son Baron |
| 0:11.3 | are pretty low this year. |
| 0:12.8 | Trump specifically asked a New York judge for the day off of his trial |
| 0:16.4 | because he wanted to be at Baron's graduation, but apparently he is now scheduled to speak |
| 0:21.8 | at a Minnesota fundraiser the very same night. |
| 0:24.4 | Don't people normally have dinner together? Celebrate? |
| 0:27.1 | Trump knows we can see him, right? |
| 0:31.1 | On today's show, adult film star Stormy Daniels takes the stand at |
| 0:34.5 | Trump's hush money trial, plus Tik-Tok sues the US government. But first, |
| 0:39.1 | the Justice Department is expected to sue Iowa this week over a new state immigration law. |
| 0:45.0 | The law makes it a crime for a person to enter Iowa if they've previously been deported or |
| 0:49.4 | barred from entering the country. |
| 0:51.5 | The Justice Department says that the law interferes with the |
| 0:53.7 | federal government's ability to enforce immigration policy and is now asking the |
| 0:57.6 | courts to weigh in. Now the Iowa law hasn't gone into effect yet and it won't until July at the earliest, but if it does, |
| 1:06.2 | a person found in violation of the law would have a choice, |
| 1:09.4 | accept a deportation order from a state judge, or face prosecution and jail time. |
| 1:15.3 | Most people would be looking at up to two years, but some people could face as many as |
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