DES KOINES, Iowa – Governor Kim Reynolds stepped up pressure on Sheriff Dan Marx in Decorah to get with President Trump’s program to arrest and deport anyone suspected being an undocumented immigrant. The governor directed the state attorney general, Brenna Bird, also a Republican, to investigate what’s going on Decorah and Winneshiek County. Bird confirmed the investigation following a threat by Reynolds, a Trump acolyte, t to suspend state funding to the county. Reynolds and Bird ganged up on Sheriff Marx for expressing doubt about the legality of the mass Trump-directed roundups, which supposedly to deport criminals but which actually, say critics, are part of a slightly veiled pogrom against brown-skin people.
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Bird: “Iowa law is clear: counties and cities must comply with Iowa Code Chapter 27A, which specifically requires law enforcement to comply with ICE detainers or risk loss of state funding. We have received the governor’s complaint against Winneshiek County and have opened an investigation.” The constitutionality of the Iowa statute hasn’t been tested in the coourts. In Minnesota the attorney general has ruled it’s unconstitutional for federal immigration agents to force county sheriff’s to house detainees from raids in local jails.