A U.S. law that bars encouraging illegal immigration for advantage or gain is lawful, the Supreme Court ruled on June 23.
“After concluding that this statute criminalizes immigration advocacy and other protected speech, the Ninth Circuit held it unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. That was error,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, wrote for the majority.
“Properly interpreted, this provision forbids only the intentional solicitation or facilitation of certain unlawful acts,” she added.
The law in question prohibits encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for “commercial advantage or private financial gain.”
The case was brought to the nation’s highest court by the government….