Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Harris County Commissioners Court over unconstitutional grants, totaling over $1.3 million, to leftwing organizations to defend illegal aliens facing lawful deportation in court.
“We must stop the left-wing radicals who are robbing Texans to prevent illegals from being deported by the Trump Administration,” Paxton said in a press release announcing the lawsuit.
“Beyond just being blatantly unconstitutional, this is evil and wicked. Millions upon millions of illegals invaded America during the last administration, and they must be sent back to where they came from.”
“In a recent 4-1 vote, the Harris County Commissioners Court allocated $1,344,751 in taxpayer funds for distribution to several nongovernmental organizations dedicated to fighting the deportation of illegal aliens,” the press release explains, describing the expenditures as “unconstitutional grants of public funds to private entities to subsidize the legal defense of illegal aliens who ought to be deported.”
“The Texas Constitution prohibits governmental entities like Harris County from misusing public funds by giving gifts or conferring private benefits to individuals and groups that do not serve a legitimate public end.”
Some of the groups paid by Harris County include the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, Justice for All Immigrants, Kids in Need of Defense (“KIND”), the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and BakerRipley, according to the lawsuit.
This includes $100,000 to the Houston Immigrant Representation Project “to operate an ‘immigrant resource hotline,’” the lawsuit states.
Ken Paxton announced the lawsuit on X, adding, “I’m suing Harris County for unlawfully directing over $1.3 million in taxpayer money to defend illegal aliens from deportation.”
“We must stop the left-wing radicals who are robbing Texans to prevent illegals from being deported by the Trump Administration,” he said.