Immigration fraud case brings tough First Amendment questions to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case about whether a federal law that prohibits inducing unlawful immigration violates the First Amendment.
Updated March 27, 2023 at 6:28 PM ET
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
