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TEXAS REPUBLICANS LAUNCH ‘UNPRECEDENTED ASSAULT’ ON CATHOLIC AID GROUP

Humanitarian Aid Group Facing Persecution from Texas Attorney General

For Immediate Release: February 21, 2024

EL PASO, TEXAS – Catholic charity Annunciation House, a volunteer organization that offers hospitality to migrants, immigrants, and refugees in El Paso, is being targeted by the Texas Attorney General’s office for providing humanitarian aid services.

“Texas Republicans are now targeting and harassing religious charities providing humanitarian aid. For nearly half a century, Annunciation House has provided for those in need without turning people away just like our churches, our food pantries, our schools, and our hospitals,” said U.S. Senate contender Roland Gutierrez. “For all the good that Annunciation House has done, the OAG wants to put them out of business. We have to fight against this unprecedented assault on our rights.” 

“Immigrants have made this state strong, they aren’t to blame for the economic anxiety working families feel across Texas. It’s corrupt sociopaths like Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz who break our systems for their gain and then want to make it a crime for you to be a person of color, or poor, or both.”

Annunciation House is fighting to stay open, counter-suing the Office of the Attorney General and asking a court to decide what documents it must lawfully turn over to the OAG.

“It is a work recognized by the Catholic Church and is listed in the National Catholic Directory,” said Annunciation House in its response to the OAG. “Annunciation House has done this work of accompaniment out of the scriptural and Gospel mandate to welcome the stranger. Annunciation House’s response to the stranger is no different from that of the schools who enroll children of refugees, the clinics and hospitals who care for the needs of refugees, and the churches, synagogues, and mosques who welcome families to join in worship.”

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