An El Paso judge rejected Texas' request to shut down Annunciation House, a migrant shelter network run by the Catholic Church that the Attorney General said was being used as a stash house for undocumented immigrants.
However, Judge Francisco Domínguez said that Ken Paxton's claim, "even if accepted as true, does not establish a violation" of state laws prohibiting human smuggling. He added that state laws are preempted by federal ones and therefore are "unenforceable."
