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The Houston Chronicle reports:
Attorney General Ken Paxton is trying to shut down an immigrants rights group in Houston, alleging it is “systematically” flouting nonprofit rules by advocating too aggressively against state laws and political candidates.
It is the latest attempt by the Republican attorney general to shutter groups aiding immigrants in Texas. Paxton has sought, unsuccessfully so far, to close a handful of Catholic-affiliated migrant shelters along the border, alleging they are engaged in human trafficking.
But the drive against FIEL Houston, a longtime nonprofit advocating for immigrants, takes a new tactic, arguing the group has run afoul of federal rules governing how far nonprofits can go in seeking to influence legislation, and barring certain nonprofits from backing political candidates.
Read the full article. You will be utterly shocked to learn that Paxton has never sued a church for violating the same rules.
.@KenPaxtonTX is trying to shut down @FIELHouston, alleging it is “systematically” flouting nonprofit rules by advocating too aggressively against state laws and political candidates. It is his latest attempt to shutter groups aiding immigrants in Texas. https://t.co/ND4C4TDtXo
— Ben Wermund (@benwermund) August 16, 2024
Paxton is trying to punish @FIELHouston for social media posts which he argues run afoul of the limits federal law places on 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.
If judges accept that argument (and so far it seems they’re not), it would put every nonprofit in the state at risk. pic.twitter.com/MbxxyeCo34
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) August 16, 2024