Ken Paxton has argued that some shelters operate as a “criminal enterprise” designed to “facilitate illegal border crossings” and “conceal illegally present aliens from law enforcement.”
By Anumita Kaur and María Luisa Paúl, The Washington PostRepublican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
Judge Francisco X. Dominguez of the 205th District Court shot down the effort, writing that Paxton’s allegations were unfounded and his request for documents violated the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches. Thus, his ruling said, it was void and unenforceable. Any organization “facilitating the unlawful entry of illegal aliens into Texas is undermining the rule of law and potentially jeopardizing the safety and wellbeing of our citizens,” Paxton said in a March statement.
Those claims stem from testimony from one of his office’s investigators, who was sent to monitor the shelters in February, according to court records. In his affidavit, the investigator said he saw Garcia delivering groceries to a shelter where “several Hispanic individuals from adults to small children seen entering and leaving.” The investigator noted that three people had keys to the shelter, while everyone else had to ring a doorbell.
Jerome Wesevich, an attorney at the Texas RioGrande Legal Aide, which represented Annunciation House, said Paxton’s efforts were “purely political.”
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