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Texas AG Ken Paxton Suing to Shut Down Nonprofit He Alleges Is Facilitating Illegal Immigration
Epoch Times ^ | 2/21/24 | Ryan Morgan

Posted on 02/21/2024 3:47:48 PM PST by CFW

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a state judge to shut down a nonprofit organization that operates a network of shelters in Texas, alleging that the organization appears to be facilitating illegal border crossings and human smuggling.

The Republican attorney general began investigating the Catholic nonprofit Annunciation House earlier this month over potential violations of state law. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) issued a Feb. 7 “request to examine” the nonprofit’s records, including documents detailing what services it provides to immigrants who are in the country legally or illegally.

According to Mr. Paxton, Annunciation House refused to turn over any documents and sued his office soon after, seeking to halt his efforts to obtain their records. On Tuesday, Feb. 20, Mr. Paxton announced he is asserting a counterclaim, seeking to shut down Annunciation House’s operations within the state entirely.

“OAG has complete and unlimited authority to examine business records to ensure that entities operating within the state are doing so lawfully. And the consequence of a flagrant failure to comply with such a request is that OAG may terminate the business’s right to operate in Texas,” Mr. Paxton’s office said in a press statement on Tuesday. “The OAG lawsuit seeks to revoke Annunciation House’s authorization to do business in Texas and asks the court to appoint a receiver to liquidate their assets.”

In his legal filings, Mr. Paxton states his initial request to inspect Annunciation House’s records “was not made in a vacuum.” Rather, he alleges state investigators had been monitoring the “unusually covert way” Annunciation House operates.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: annunciationhouse; border; illegals; invasion; lawsuit; ngos; paxton; romancatholiccharity; texas
It's this type of creative thinking and push-back that caused the Texas legislature to try to impeach, convict, and remove Paxton last year.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton Suing to Shut Down Nonprofit He Alleges Is Facilitating Illegal Immigration

1 posted on 02/21/2024 3:47:48 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Does anyone know if Texas is enforcing e-verify? Fine employers from hiring these illegals and they might go home.


2 posted on 02/21/2024 3:59:55 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: CFW

Boy do I like this guy!
He would make a fantastic governor someday


3 posted on 02/21/2024 4:00:10 PM PST by Zathras
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“He would make a fantastic governor someday”

He should be tasked with cleaning out the US DOJ.


4 posted on 02/21/2024 4:05:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Cornyn is a better target.


5 posted on 02/21/2024 4:16:20 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Cornyn is a better target.”

The peeps of Tey-Has need to take that traitor out.


6 posted on 02/21/2024 4:24:38 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: CFW

What is it with these years too late Republicans? Nonprofits have been doing this forever and NOW they’re acting like they give a damn?


7 posted on 02/21/2024 5:08:40 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: CFW

While you’re at shut down all the “religious charities” and NGOs. They are nothing but rackets making a bundle and ruining the country by facilitating the invasion.


8 posted on 02/21/2024 6:57:16 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Lizavetta

Researching the number of registered voters in the lowest 38 populated states. Because 51% of the voters in 38 states could amend the constitution.
Just saying…


9 posted on 02/21/2024 6:57:33 PM PST by midwest_hiker
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He should go after the Texas legislature, they made it legal years ago for illegal aliens to get in-state tuition rates. Out of state Americans have to pay more.
10 posted on 02/21/2024 7:01:05 PM PST by Theoria
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To: aquila48

I was about to say that it isn’t just the Catholic church....Methodists, and a lot of others are in on it, too.


11 posted on 02/21/2024 7:05:10 PM PST by Gaffer
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...state investigators had been monitoring the “unusually covert way” Annunciation House operates.

Government constructs tend to do that.

12 posted on 02/21/2024 8:33:00 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Corrupt, Criminal NGOs Abetting Invasion of USA:

Catholic Charities USA
Red Cross USA
International Rescue Committee.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
Doctors Without Borders.
Save the Children.
RefugePoint.
International Refugee Assistance Project.
Alight.
Jesuit Refugee Service.
Casa Alitas.
Global Refuge


13 posted on 02/22/2024 4:36:59 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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