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Montana leaders are ignoring the real priorities facing the Treasure State

by RUSSELL ROWLAND
| February 7, 2025 7:00 AM

Last week I watched an interview with a farmer in South Dakota. They were talking about the new immigration policy, and the interviewer asked him how much of his work force consisted of undocumented immigrants.

“About half,” he said. 

This is a man who voted from Trump, and for former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. And when the reporter asked whether he was worried about these workers being deported, he was absolutely confident that it wouldn’t happen, which sort of boggles the mind. Did he think that voting for these people makes him immune to their policies, because it seems pretty clear that it’s just the opposite? 

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