The issue before the Supreme Court on Monday: whether a federal law that prohibits inducing unlawful immigration for financial gain violates the First Amendment.
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The issue before the Supreme Court on Monday: whether a federal law that prohibits inducing unlawful immigration for financial gain violates the First Amendment.
Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag
Look at the the Supreme Court’s history, and you will see a lot of cases in which odious defendants bring tough First Amendment questions. Monday’s case was one of those.
The issue was whether a federal law that makes it a crime to encourage or induce illegal immigration transforms some speech protected by the Constitution into a crime.
The defendant in this case is Helaman Hansen, who conned 471 noncitizens into believing that they could obtain U.S.