A course profile and related public record of Shahid Haque's immigration-law teaching at the University of Montana School of Law.
Adjunct professor, University of Montana School of Law, Fall 2015.
LAW 595.01, Immigration Law — a two-credit elective meeting weekly throughout the semester.
Federal doctrine, real Montana case studies, and discussion of both how the system works and how it should work.
Family- and employment-based immigration, temporary visas, admission, adjustment of status, green cards, and the paths to U.S. citizenship.
Grounds of deportability, removal proceedings, available forms of relief, asylum, and the procedures that shape whether a person can remain in the country.
ICE and CBP enforcement, local policing, racial profiling, Fourth Amendment concerns, domestic violence, and protections for immigrant survivors.
Local case studies anchored the course, and students could observe a master-calendar session in immigration court in Helena to see removal procedure in practice.
In notes written after the final class, Shahid described trying to show students both the rewarding victories and the crushing limits of immigration practice, the imbalance of power lawyers confront, and the importance of using legal training with conscience.
These records document a separate 2014 continuing-education workshop on immigration law and immigrant rights, together with reporting that followed. They show the public-education work that preceded Shahid's Fall 2015 law-school course.
The University of Montana School of Law announces a continuing-education workshop led by Shahid Haque on immigration law and immigrant rights in Montana. The program covered the scope of immigration issues in the state, MIJA's work, and practical steps for action and advocacy. The workshop reflects Shahid's effort to build immigration knowledge within Montana's legal and professional community, not only represent individual clients.
The Montana Kaimin examines the health and legal needs of migrant agricultural workers, including Flathead cherry pickers and H-2A workers across the state. Drawing on Shahid Haque's UM workshop, the article explains that Montana's immigrant population is larger and more varied than many residents assume, and that visible Latino workers encounter profiling that undocumented Canadians often avoid. The report connects Shahid's legal advocacy with the practical work of a rural health clinic. Both addressed the isolation and fear that can keep migrant workers from seeking essential services in Montana.