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In a letter obtained by the Des Moines Register, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton wrote that the department "intends to bring a lawsuit to enforce the supremacy of federal law and to enjoin" the new immigration law passed as Senate File 2340. "SF 2340 is preempted by federal law and violates the United States Constitution," Boynton wrote. He gave the state a deadline of May 7 to suspend enforcement of the law before the DOJ takes action. The law, signed in April after passing the Republican-led Legislature, allows Iowa officers to arrest undocumented immigrants who have previously been deported or barred from entering the country. If convicted, a judge could order that they be deported back to their home country. Boynton wrote that the law "effectively creates a separate state immigration scheme," which "intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government and is preempted." 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