· Great Falls Tribune · By John S. Adams · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
The Great Falls Tribune reports that MIJA, MEA-MFT, and Alisha Blair sought to stop LR-121 from taking effect. Shahid explains that the law reversed the usual assumption of citizenship, lacked a process for wrongful denials, and relied on a federal database unable to confirm many U.S. citizens.
The article centers a person the law could misclassify rather than an abstract hypothetical. Blair was a U.S. citizen from birth but had no certificate because federal law did not require her to obtain one.