Paxton’s office demanded records of migrants that Annunciation House has helped and threatened to shut down the Catholic shelter network.
Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, speaks at a press conference about Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against the shelter network.El Paso leaders on Friday denounced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s threat to shut down Annunciation House, a network of migrant shelters that has been in operation for almost 50 years.
The nonprofit, which opened its first shelter at a local Catholic Church and receives support from the church, said it has helped hundreds of thousands of refugees who have come through El Paso by feeding and keeping them off city streets. “Attorney General Paxton compounds his abuse of power by focusing it on a religious organization that is putting Catholic faith into practice,” Wesevich said. “Attorney General Paxton may want to dust off his Bible and read through it sometime.”
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said that Garcia’s organization and others who do similar work are invaluable to the city because those groups step in to help local and federal authorities handle large numbers of migrants entering the city. Leeser said that part of El Paso’s culture is to be a welcoming place, including for vulnerable people who are seeking a better life.
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