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.
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Scum. Pure evil scum.
Decades ago, I sat next to a Catholic priest on a flight from San Francisco to San Diego. He told me he was going to pick up a few “poor mothers from Mexico with children” and bring them back to SF where Catholic Charities would take care of them. He seemed sincerely compassionate but I though he was creepy anyway.
The Catholic Church has a long history of ignoring American sovereignty. Time they learn to render unto Cesar what is Caesar’s.
True.
I’ve never been ‘sued’ by the gummint for the illegal things that I have done!
Good news.
How many “immigrants” does the Vatican take in, shelter and nurture? I seem to recall the Pope has a “walled city” to keep out the riff-raff. The Catholic church is no longer the church of Jesus Christ, it is the church of Karl Marx.
Thanks for the ping and post. Comments BUMP!
Then how do you separate the Archdiocese of Chicago who runs Catholic Charites from the Vatican?
Vatican officials applaud Archdiocese of Chicago’s move to 100% renewable energy
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Don’t forget the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (nowadays they prefer to be known as HIAS). They receive in the neighborhood of $100,000,000 annually to assist the invasion . . . very few of whom are Hebrews. Do you think Texas will go after HIAS?
You incorrectly assume that the Vatican is Catholic anymore.
It is not; not when it is under Bergoglio and his Marxist-Globalist apostate Cardinals and Bishops.
These ‘religious’ NGOs ferreting illegals into and around the country are nothing more than profit-making commercial enterprises using the aegis of the “church” to keep from paying taxes and relatively unaudited on how the money they get is spent.
As a Protestant, I feel for the good Catholics who are horrified at this nonsense
Thank you.
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