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Figures obtained by TRAC, the Transactional Resource Access Clearinghouse, an immigration records analysis center at Syracuse University, show that in fiscal 2018, more than 4,500 people were prosecuted in the United States for helping migrants. There’s been a 30% rise in such prosecutions since 2015. But the greatest rise in that timeframe followed Sessions’ order in 2018.
The government points to such trends as evidence of effective border enforcement. Critics claim prosecution of otherwise law-abiding citizens is an attempt to criminalize acts of compassion.
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