Montana Attorney General issues cease and desist over Helena immigration resolution

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has found a resolution the Helena City Commission passed last month in response to aggressive federal immigration enforcement around the nation “appears to be a blatant violation” of a statewide ban on sanctuary cities and demanded the city change its policy.

In a cease-and-desist letter sent March 10, Knudsen said the resolution “establishes a broad sanctuary city policy that seeks to protect every illegal immigrant in the city’s jurisdiction, regardless of whether that alien has committed a serious crime and is a recidivist.”