AILA and CAIR Coalition Argue that SB1718 Is Unconstitutionally Vague

AILA and the CAIR Coalition submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida arguing that section 10 of Florida’s SB 1718 is unconstitutionally vague because federal law provides no clear answer as to which of the many classes of people who enter the United States without authorization and later gain legal status or other immigration benefits should be deemed to have been "inspected" after entry. It is a bedrock principle of constitutional law that criminal laws must not leave citizens to guess at their meaning. They may not, in Justice Gorsuch’s words, leave “the people in the dark about what the law demands and allow[] prosecutors and courts to make it up.” Yet that is what SB 1718 does.