‘Reckless leadership, retaliatory nature’: Texas migrant nonprofit slams Paxton for trying to shut it down over Trump ‘son of the devil’ post

Background: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday , Feb. 23, 2024 (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File). Inset: Former President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan criminal court in New York, on Thursday, May 16, 2024 (Steven Hirsch/Pool Photo via AP).

Background: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File). Inset: Former President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan criminal court in New York, on Thursday, May 16, 2024 (Steven Hirsch/Pool Photo via AP).

Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to shut down another immigrants’ rights organization because it criticized former President Donald Trump, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, and a new Texas immigration law.

Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Familias Inmigrantes y Estudiantes en la Lucha (FIEL), a nonprofit organization that provides education, social, and legal services to immigrant families in the region. In his lawsuit, Paxton asked that the court issue a temporary injunction to shut down FIEL, alleging that its activities violate federal and state nonprofit laws under which the group was organized.

The lawsuit took specific issue with one of FIEL’s social media posts, which depicted Donald Trump as the “son of the devil,” as well as its campaign against controversial anti-immigration bill Texas S.B. 4. The bill is part of Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star,” which includes installation of razor wire and a floating barrier of buoys in the Rio Grande, and the authorization for Texas law enforcement to arrest anyone suspected of illegal border crossing and charge them with crimes ranging from misdemeanors to felonies, then to prosecute and punish with jail time or return to Mexico.

Paxton argued in his lawsuit that FIEL’s statements should cause it to lose its tax-exempt status under 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) and be dissolved.

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