February 23, 2017      4:27 PM

Appeals court reinstates state immigration banning the harboring of undocumented people

MALDEF says it is a positive result “because the fifth circuit narrowed the statute when neither the legislature nor the Attorney General would do so"

The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reinstated a 2015 law Thursday that makes it a crime to harbor people in the U.S. illegally, undoing a preliminary injunction from April of last year.

The court dismissed a lawsuit against the state challenging a harboring provision of last session’s House Bill 11. The law says a person is a criminal if he or she “encourages or induces a person to enter or remain in this country in violation of federal law by concealing, harboring, or shielding that person from detection.”

The plaintiffs in the case were several landlords and shelter workers who argued that they could face criminal charges for harboring under the provision.

By Eleanor Dearman

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