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Whether helping people survive unjust laws justifies legal risk

I've been giving money to undocumented families in my community but I just learned it might be considered harboring and I could face federal charges.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Humanitarian impulses conflict with legal constraints when laws criminalize basic human assistance to people targeted by those same laws.

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“Where Are You with Gandhian satyagraha and nonviolent resistance?”

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