The ruling is the second time a Texas judge has ruled against the attorney general for investigating shelters helping migrants.
McALLEN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton cannot depose the leader of a McAllen migrant shelter, a Hidalgo County judge ruled Wednesday. District Judge Bobby Flores ’ decision shuts down attempts to compel the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley to submit to questioning on the shelter’s operations. An attorney for Catholic Charities , William Powell , said he hoped the ruling put an end to the attorney general’s investigation into the organization’s work.
Lawyers for the state accused El Paso’s Annunciation House of violating state laws prohibiting human smuggling and operating a stash house. But state District Judge Francisco Dominguez ruled that the state law was “unenforceable” because it was preempted by federal law. Federal law also provides anyone who enters the country the right to request asylum.
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