Does an American citizen have freedom of speech to urge an illegal alien to violate immigration law? The Supreme Court takes up a 1st Amendment case of a Evelyn Sineneng-Smith who urged unqualified immigrants to stay in the United States as part of a fraudulent business she ran, duping clients out of thousands of dollars with false promises. Should open-borders Progressives and Democrats have a protected free speech right to verbally induce people to break the law?
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Freedom to Urge Illegal Immigration: Supreme Court Takes 1st Amendment Case
Does an American citizen have freedom of speech to urge an illegal alien to violate immigration law? The Supreme Court takes up a 1st Amendment case of a Evelyn Sineneng-Smith who urged unqualified immigrants to stay in the United States as part of a fraudulent business she ran, duping clients out of thousands of dollars with false promises. Should open-borders Progressives and Democrats have a protected free speech right to verbally induce people to break the law?
6 replies on “Freedom to Urge Illegal Immigration: Supreme Court Takes 1st Amendment Case”
I would think that enouraging an illegal immigrant to stay in the US changes re: the lawyer. As an officer of the court, lawyer is in some kinda violation if she encourages her client, specifically, to commit or continue to commit a crime.
How would this concept connect with the woman convicted of something-murder for talking her boyfriend into killing himself? Telling someone to break the law usually is a problem if you promise them something, ie if you kill someone I’ll pay you.
I’d say the difference between the sedition that founded the country and what might happen now is then the govt did not respect the natural right of free speech while the one we have now does. We also have elections and can vote for new representatives to change the govt. We don’t need to revolt to change it.
Bill’s last question was probably the same thing being discussed in 1856. Our federalist system of govt was supposed to give states rights, but their desire to exercise those rights to do (immoral) federally illegal things led to the violent discussion about where those rights ended. I don’t think (hope not) it will rise to that level again since I think not so many people in the voting population think that way and should it get as close to 1860 again would vote the other way.
The greatest threat to the people of the United States is a parasitical political class that won’t stop until the host dies.
A Liberal Court taking liberties with our Constitution, no surprise here.
Relevant law states: 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)Any person who:(iv)encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law
Penalty section states in part: …in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under Title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both
Seems pretty clear to me, not sure what the Defense lawyer would argue.
-Ryan
Free speach. But not to yell fire in a crowded theater if intended to incite panick. Ok or there is a fire or trully believe there is a fire. Same thing here.