The Border Smuggling Crackdown Act raises federal penalties based on the number of people smuggled and severity of harm, aiming to deter organized human smuggling.
FIRST ON FOX: Sens. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Thursday introduced a bipartisan bill to intensify federal prosecution of human smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border. The proposed legislation, dubbed the Border Smuggling Crackdown Act, aims to enhance penalties for traffickers by updating federal sentencing guidelines to better reflect the exact number of individuals smuggled.
Additionally, the bill raises the sentencing levels for cases where victims experience bodily harm or death, with an increase in penalty increments based on the severity of injuries sustained. Bodily injury incurs a two-level increase per person, serious bodily injury adds four levels, life-threatening or permanent injury adds six levels, and each death leads to a 10-level increase, according to the bill text.
Cartels at our southern border are trafficking and exploiting innocent men, women, and children every day,' Blackburn said in a statement. 'Our bill would modernize federal sentencing law to better hold these human smugglers to account and ensure that sentencing for these crimes reflects every single person these criminals injure or murder.
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