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In this Helena Civic Television interview, Shahid Haque explains how people become undocumented, why the label covers very different circumstances, and how restrictive laws and trade policy can increase unauthorized migration. He discusses mixed-status Montana families, Canadian visa overstays, immigrant labor, domestic violence, racial profiling, and the then-pending challenge to LR-121, urging viewers to move beyond slogans such as 'get in line.'
The interview records Shahid's public-education work during the early years of the Montana Immigrant Justice Alliance and while the LR-121 lawsuit was still pending. It shows the firm pairing individual representation with a broader effort to make immigration law understandable in a largely rural state.