Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird released a statement Friday following the announcement that the Trump administration would be dropping a Biden lawsuit against Iowa’s immigration enforcement law.

The Trump administration on Friday moved to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma brought by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice, which challenged the states' immigration laws making it a crime for someone to be in the state if they are in the U.

The Trump administration withdrew lawsuits filed by Biden's DOJ against Iowa and Oklahoma over their immigration laws criminalising illegal immigration. GOP leaders welcomed the dismissal, blaming Biden’s border security policies.

Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department opposed Iowa's immigration enforcement law. The now-Trump DOJ on Friday dismissed the suit.

The law remains blocked for now. It was not immediately clear whether the dismissal request signaled a broader shift on state-level immigration enforcement.

The law faced immediate legal challenges, and some law enforcement agencies, including the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office, criticized it.