· KXLH · By Jonathon Ambarian · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
KXLH reports on a 2025 Montana bill that would have required officers to check immigration status during every traffic stop. Sponsor Nelly Nicol presented the mandate as a way to avoid profiling, while law-enforcement groups warned that a compulsory check could conflict with the Fourth Amendment and tribal representatives said Native people could be wrongly targeted. The committee took no immediate action.
The proposal directly revisited the safeguards created by the firm's 2015 Montana Highway Patrol settlement. A decade later, the constitutional limits established after prolonged roadside immigration checks were still shaping legislative debate over policing and immigration in Montana.