WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court Thursday reinstated a federal law that makes it a crime to induce noncitizens to stay in the country illegally, in a unanimous opinion that sharply criticized an appeals court for invalidating the statute on grounds the defendant never raised. A federal court convicted Evelyn Sineneng-Smith, a San Jose, Calif., immigration consultant, of defrauding would-be immigrants from the Philippines by falsely telling them she could arrange legal residency in exchange for fees starting at $5,900. She appealed...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 07, 2020 18:22 UTC