· KRTV · By Sanjay Talwani · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
KRTV reports that a Helena judge found most of LR-121 unenforceable and preempted by federal law. The court held that immigration regulation was an exclusively federal power and that Montana could not invent its own definition of an illegal immigrant. Shahid Haque called the decision a significant victory against a law intended to make the state unwelcoming to immigrants.
The local television report brought the legal basis and practical meaning of Shahid and MIJA's victory to audiences across north-central Montana.