Summary
Directs the Attorney General to increase by 50 for each of FY 2002 through 2006 the number of Immigration and Naturalization Service (full-time) investigators or other enforcement personnel assigned to combat alien smuggling.
Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to promulgate or amend sentencing guidelines for alien smuggling-related activities so as to: (1) double specified minimum prison terms for smuggling, transporting, harboring, or inducement; (2) increase minimum fines; and (3) increase by at least two offense levels sentencing for intentionally or recklessly creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury or causing bodily injury or death. Exempts from such provisions offenses: (1) committed other than for profit; or (2) involving the smuggling, transporting, or harboring only of the defendant's spouse, child, or both.
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) exempt from specified alien smuggling or harboring criminal penalties persons rendering life threatening emergency assistance to an alien in the United States; and (2) subject specified alien smuggling and harboring crimes under the Act committed by an armed person to enhanced penalties.
Directs the Commission to revise Federal sentencing guidelines to provide that plea bargaining and other prosecutorial policies, and district policy differences, are not a ground for sentence imposition outside applicable guidelines.
Authorizes appropriations for alien smuggling-related undercover and enforcement activities.
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