Posted on 02/26/2024 4:08:29 PM PST by ebb tide
AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that he is suing to force the closure of a “Catholic” non-governmental organization (NGO) it contends is helping facilitate illegal immigration.
In a press release, Paxton said he is seeking to end Annunciation House’s Texas operations based on a review of “significant public record information strongly suggesting” it is involved in “facilitating illegal entry to the United States, alien harboring, human smuggling, and operating a stash house.” The NGO “refused to produce a single document” and instead sued to try to keep the state from seeing them, which the AG’s office calls a “flagrant failure to comply” punishable by loss of its right to operate in the state and liquidation of assets.
“The chaos at the southern border has created an environment where NGOs, funded with taxpayer money from the Biden Administration, facilitate astonishing horrors including human smuggling,” Paxton said. “While the federal government perpetuates the lawlessness destroying this country, my office works day in and day out to hold these organizations responsible for worsening illegal immigration.”
Fox News reported that Annunciation House declares itself “rooted in Catholic social teaching,” which it takes to mean that “participat(ing) in advocacy and education around immigration issues” and “seek(ing) to be a voice for justice and compassion, especially on behalf of the most marginalized of our society.”
In response to Paxton’s allegations, a spokesperson for the NGO told Fox that its activities are “no different from the work of schools who enroll migrant children, the clinics and hospitals who care for the needs of their ill, the churches, synagogues, and mosques who welcome their families to join in worship.”
As covered by Texas Monthly in 2019, to deal with overcrowded border detention facilities, upon processing immigration officials in the El Paso area release illegals to Annunciation House “while they make travel arrangements to join other family members in the interior of the United States,” supposedly while awaiting hearings before an immigration court. Center for Immigration Studies executive director Mark Krikorian has called NGOs like Annunciation “government contractors posing as religious organizations.”
President Joe Biden has presided over a surge of illegals entering the United States and being released inside the country after the reversal of several Trump-era border policies, such as the previous administration’s third-country agreements with the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to have them hold refugees while their applications for political asylum in America were reviewed. The situation has created a humanitarian crisis, prompting even the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration to declare America’s southern border with Mexico the “deadliest land crossing in the world” in 2022.
Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over the situation, though the effort is expected to die in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
forget suing them, charge them with RICO!
There should be no taxpayer money facilitating “immigrants”, directly or through NGOs. It is a modern invention and not part of historical immigration. Yes, NGOs have helped immigrants, on their own dime, not the taxpayers.
It was quite telling when Bergoglio went to the Mexican border and claimed candidate Trump was not Christian because he was going to secure our border…that’s billions and billions of dollars these so-called “Catholic” agencies and the Church makes off of “refugee resettlement.”
As a Catholic, I say root out all of these criminal organizations. There is nothing compassionate about them. They are in it for the $$$ and most of them are neo-Marxist pieces of ****.
YES!!!! These are INVADERS!!
The Catholic Church is an enemy of the American People.
There is plenty of evil surrounding the Catholic Church. From oedo priests to the pope himself.
And Catholic Charities is just one of the evil atrocities of this apostate church.
If these organizations really cared about the people who are immigrating under false pretenses of asylum, they would go to the countries of origin and help them there.
The Pope (big guy) has to get his geld!
Facilitating human and drug trafficking. Same for Lutheran, Methodist, etc gonefs.
I’ve been saying for decades that “Catholic Charities” is neither Catholic, nor a charity.
Liberation theology.
Is This CATHOLICS CAUCAS?
Bingo
Catholic charities is a Obama Invasion front group l..
Its needs to closed nationwide .now
They are welcome to go after my soon to be former denomination, too.
Lock them all up, Paxton.
What do you want to bet this NGO, if you really dig into them, has ties to the Democrats in some way or form?
Few NGO’s are just plain charitable organizations. (((It’s always about money and there is no free lunch.)))
Religoin, race, sexual orientation become emotional identity issues used as a battering ram. The NGO is often a “front.” Overseas they are often sponsored by big corporations and oligarchs looking to change the laws of some country they are operating in, or they are being supported by the USG indirectly and not really an NGO as was the case in Ukraine for years.
Why do you think many foreign countries really look at these NGO’s closely and even throw them out from time to time?
Why do you think BLM appeared one year before the 2020 elections and vaporized shortly after?
Where is BLM today?
Catholics have lost their way .. to think it’s ok to ‘help’ wrongs.. why do they get so caught up .. a young nurse was killed near Ball State, by an illegal.. any adult with a brain, thinking it’s ok to open the gate for all... are not fit to be in the position to make such dumb destructive ways into being.
To be in the position of head of the nation... that person has the responsibility to protect citizens. not doing so, is Treason.
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