Gov. Greg Gianforte said Montana would continue to send resources to the southern border at an event Sunday in Texas alongside 14 other Republican governors.
Washington state health and workplace inspectors have repeatedly been denied entry to a for-profit federal immigration detention center in Tacoma, where detainees have filed hundreds of complaints.
U.S. Sen. Steve Daines and U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, both Montana Republicans, have in recent weeks introduced bills seeking to block Palestinians from entering the United States, and in Zinke’s case, to expel any who have recently come to America.
Jim Elliott writes, "We are big hearted, tough, and kind. And we don’t need to be turned into mean-spirited people by out-of-state politicians who are looking for votes by pitting us against each other."
The Biden administration on Wednesday night announced new guidelines for Venezuelan migrants, under which some will have a pathway to temporary residence in the United States and others who crossed the border without authorization will be sent back to Mexico.
Jim Elliott writes, "But the headline grabbing stunts of DeSantis and Abbott of Texas are not attempts to remedy a serious problem, unless getting votes is a serious problem. Better to work together to make things better, but that doesn’t grab headlines."