Annunciation House, an El Paso nonprofit, says Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to shut it down threatens religious freedom across Texas.
A Catholic nonprofit that shelters asylum-seekers in El Paso says Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s drive to shut it down threatens religious freedom across the state. An attorney for Annunciation House told a state district judge on Monday that Paxton served the shelter with an “illegal” document request to “manufacture” a reason to shut it down. Paxton has accused the shelter, which has housed asylum seekers for decades, of operating as a “stash house” and taking part in “human smuggling.
Texas judge blocks AG Ken Paxton’s effort to shutter Catholic nonprofit that assists migrants Paxton is accusing the nonprofit of violating state law by refusing to turn over records related to its work with migrants. His office requested the documents in February. The El Paso organization said it would provide the information but could not meet the deadline laid out by the attorney general’s investigators and sued for a temporary restraining order.
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