A federal appeals court is siding with the Biden administration’s Department of Justice and keeping a temporary block on an Iowa immigration law.

A U.S. appeals court refused on Friday to allow Iowa to implement a law allowing for the arrest and prosecution of people who are in the United States illegally. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Republican-led state's law,

Iowa can't enforce its own immigration law, U.S. appeals court says. But with Justice Department in new hands, future of statute unclear

A lower court had blocked the Republican-backed law that made it a state crime to enter Iowa after being deported or denied entry to the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has directed prosecutors to investigate officials who resist immigration enforcement efforts, intensifying a swe