(a) Criminal
penalties
(1)
(A) Any person who—
(i) ... brings to or attempts to bring to the
United States ...;
(ii) ... transports, or moves or attempts to
transport or move such ....;
(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact
that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in
violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from
detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien
in any place, including any building or any means
of transportation;
(iv) encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside; or
(v)
(I) engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or
(II) aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
shall be punished as provided in
subparagraph (B).
(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in
respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(i) in the case of a violation of subparagraph
(A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii),
or (iv) 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;
(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or
(v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5
years, or both;
(iii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph
(A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person
causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18)
to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18,
imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and
(iv) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.
(c) Authority to
arrest
No
officer or person shall have authority to make any arrests for a violation of
any provision of this section except officers and
employees of the Service designated by the Attorney General, either individually or as a member of a class, and all
other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws.
(e) Outreach
program
The
Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General and
the Secretary of State, as appropriate, shall develop and implement an outreach
program to educate the public in the United States and abroad about the
penalties for bringing in and harboring aliens in violation of this section.
Does that say it
is a federal crime to conceal, to aid or abet, or to conspire
to commit, the shielding from detection or the "harboring" of
an illegal alien ?
Isn't that the
definition of sanctuary city policy ?
Perhaps
the Outreach program should consider contacting the sanctuary cities'
governments and politicians, and warn them in no uncertain terms that if they do not
rescind their unlawful sanctuary policies, they will bear criminal
responsibility and will be criminally charged, in the federal courts, -
convicted under the law, supra, and
sent to prison for 5 years.
Could that quickly end the sanctuary city rebellion that is occurring in the cities and the liberal states, against the constitutionally granted power of the federal government to manage and control all immigration into the United States ?
If only the Attorney General would make a designation for the arrest under subsection (c).