Zinke seeks evidence of his own claims about arrival of immigrant family

Despite raising the specter that a nonprofit worked with the Biden administration to relocate immigrants in the country illegally to Kalispell earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke has yet to produce evidence for the claim.

Zinke’s office first revealed that a family of immigrants had arrived in Northwest Montana in a May 2 press release that included statements from Flathead County Sheriff Brian Heino and County Commissioner Randy Brodehl. The Republican congressman described the immigrants as Venezuelan and in the United States unlawfully, and said they traveled from Texas to New York where they took a flight to the Flathead Valley, landing in the evening hours of May 1. 

In Kalispell, according to the press release, they found aid from Valley Neighbors, an organization that supports immigrants and refugees, which the congressman labeled a “dark money nonprofit.”