Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is asking a state court to shut down $566,000 in legal services for individuals in Bexar County facing federal immigration and deportation proceedings.
The fund — which the state’s fourth most populous county and home to San Antonio approved in December — provides no public benefit as required when a local government shells out taxpayer money to a private organization, Paxton said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
“Leftists in Bexar County have no authority to use taxpayer dollars to fund their radical, criminal-loving agenda,” Paxton said in a press release.
Paxton’s gift clause argument ...
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