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Arrests of people caught providing shelter or helping illegal immigrants have sharply increased since the beginning of the Trump administration.
There were 4,532 people federally charged with harboring and bringing in immigrants in fiscal year 2018, according to a study by Syracuse University and reported by NPR. The numbers were an uptick from the 3,902 charged the previous year and an over 30% jump from 2015.
Much of the rise followed then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ order in 2017 to prioritize enforcement of the harboring statute, which makes it a crime “in any manner whatsoever” to help bring a foreign national into the U.S. outside of a designated port of entry.
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