The Supreme Court upholds a federal law which criminalizes encouraging or inducing illegal immigration, saying it does not unconstitutionally infringe on free speech rights.
Andres Leighton / AP fileThe Supreme Court on Friday endorsed a federal law that criminalizes encouraging or inducing illegal immigration, saying it does not unconstitutionally infringe on free speech rights.uphold the conviction of defendant Helaman Hansen for violating the law.
The justices were considering the Biden administration’s appeal of a ruling in Hansen's case that struck the law down, saying it violated free speech protections under the Constitution’s First Amendment.from 2012 to 2016 ran a program in which he charged as much as $10,000 for a purported pathway to citizenship. He claimed that undocumented immigrants could become citizens via an adult adoption service and persuaded 471 people to participate.
Esha Bhandari, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement that the court interpreted the provision narrowly, meaning that the Justice Department would have to be careful in deciding which cases to bring.
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