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. 

In a press release, the attorney general’s office wrote that Annunciation had “engaged in legal violations such as facilitating illegal entry to the United States, alien harboring, human smuggling and operating a stash house.”