The Department of Justice and civil rights groups filed two separate lawsuits on Thursday aiming to block a controversial immigration law known as SF 2340 from going into effect in Iowa. SF 2340 authorizes local law enforcement officials to arrest migrants who have previously been deported or removed from the country, or who have been denied entry in the past. It also gives judges the power to order a person to be sent back to the country from which the person entered the United States. The law also does not prohibit children from being charged. The state lawmakers passed the law last month and Gov. Kim Reynolds signed it, it’s scheduled to go into effect on July 1. Early on Thursday, the American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Iowa filed a separate lawsuit on behalf of the Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice and two people the immigrant rights organization represents.