Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier this year, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the issue of a federal law that prohibits encouraging illegal immigration. The government filed a cert petition to have the court determine whether the ban is constitutional. The 1986 law makes it a crime to encourage or induce foreigners to enter the U.S. for financial gain. The law also penalizes people who advocate for unauthorized immigrants. In recent years, a federal judge convicted Evelyn Sineneng-Smith, an undocumented immigrant and former California immigration consultant, of violating the law. She was sentenced…
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