· Montana Free Press · By Arren Kimbel-Sannit · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
Montana Free Press reports on three Republican proposals for a special legislative session in 2024, including two aimed at immigration. House Speaker Matt Regier proposed state immigration enforcement and new restrictions on organizations serving immigrants after public attention focused on a Venezuelan family in the Flathead Valley. Shahid Haque explains that Venezuelans may have federal temporary protected status, that a person's status cannot be assumed, and that removal is governed by federal process rather than immediate state action.
The debate revived the same state-versus-federal conflict at the center of Shahid's successful challenge to LR-121. His response placed a politically charged local incident back within the governing federal law and made clear that the firm was prepared to challenge another unconstitutional state enforcement scheme.