· USA Today · By John S. Adams · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
USA Today gives a detailed account of the LR-121 ruling, explaining why Montana's status checks and service denials were preempted by federal law. The article reviews the measure's political history, the surviving reporting provision, and Shahid Haque's argument that years of state immigration bills had wasted public resources on a field reserved to the federal government.
The national story connected Shahid and MIJA's victory to a broader wave of state immigration laws. It also carried a Montana civil-rights case, led largely through pro bono work, to a nationwide audience.