· Border Crossing Law Firm Archive · By Jessica Mayrer · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
The Missoula Independent profiles Chris Chambers, a Montana resident born in Canada to an American father who worried that his Canadian birth certificate would not prove his citizenship under LR-121. The article explains why the court allowed MIJA's lawsuit to continue and quotes Shahid Haque on the fear the law had created among immigrants and citizens with difficult-to-document status.
Chambers's story shows why Shahid's challenge was not limited to undocumented immigrants. Citizenship acquired through a parent can be legally valid yet hard to prove, leaving lifelong Montanans vulnerable to a rigid document requirement.