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  By helping illegal migrants those groups encourage more illegal migration. Why spend money and time going legal way, if you can just pay only to get the in the boat, sail out and wait to be rescued? Why try to fix the situation in your own country, if you can just move to a better place, where everything is already built by others? But I would say, that if that rescuer is truthful about the sentence she might receive, the punishment is way too harsh.
context: Its called aiding in human trafficking. >
  
  Prosecuting for illegal immigration?