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Wednesday’s ruling is the second time a Texas judge has ruled against the attorney general for investigating shelters helping migrants.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the state’s Supreme Court on Monday to allow his office to continue its efforts to shutter Annunciation House, an El Paso-based shelter network that assists asylum seekers and other migrants.
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Over two hot days, the Sunland Park Fire Department responded to 10 calls to help migrants overcome by heat illness. Firefighters say heat emergencies are increasingly common along the border.
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Homeland Security says border arrests are falling to January 2021 averages
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Migrants in Mexico said they’ve been shot by the rounds, which leave bruises and disperse a chemical irritant. The state says Guard members are trained not to aim directly at people.
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President Biden’s executive order limits the number of unauthorized migrants seeking asylum when border crossings top 2,500 a day. The ACLU and an El Paso immigrant rights organization sued to block the order.
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New White House measure will go into effect if more than 2,500 migrants cross illegally per day.
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The ACLU of Texas report said a majority of those arrested under Gov. Greg Abbott's border initiative posed no threat to public safety.
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Ariel Ruiz Soto, senior policy analyst at Migration Policy Institute, said they 'could have consequences that actually raise the pressures and boiling points that raise issues for migrants and for local communities.'
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President Biden had said he wanted the power to effectively "shut down the border" when migration numbers surge. But this rule is an incremental shift.