Texas Seeks To Clamp Down on Federally Funded Catholic Group Helping Migrants Cross Border and Seek Asylum

Texas’s attorney general accused the group, Annunciation House, of being duplicitous about its mission of ‘simply living the Good News of the Gospel,’ as it states on its website.

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Migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico walk along large buoys being used as a floating border barrier on the Rio Grande, August 1, 2023, at Eagle Pass, Texas. AP/Eric Gay

The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, is pursuing a novel approach to his state’s migrant crisis. Mr. Paxton announced on Tuesday a lawsuit filed against a federally funded Catholic social welfare agency, Annunciation House, which has been facilitating the travel of illegal migrants across the U.S.-Texas border. The group has been providing food, shelter, and transportation to migrants, and also coaching migrants through the asylum process. 

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