State of Iowa v. Martha Aracely Martinez

APPEL, Justice.

In this case, we are called upon to determine if an undocumented noncitizen brought to Iowa as an eleven-year-old child by her parents, educated in Iowa public schools, who has lived in Iowa continuously, who is a mother of four children who are citizens of the United States, and who applied for and was granted deferred action under the Department of Homeland Security’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)1 program, may be prosecuted by State authorities for using false documents to obtain federal employment *741authorization even though federal law pervasively regulates…