Thursday, February 29, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: 'Evil' and 'corrupt' provide the best bookends for a photo of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

 

Dictionary definitions:  Merriam-Webster (here and here)
Photo creditWikipedia
Headline:  The Texas Tribune, 2/29/2024

Not to mention just plain sick!  (As in sense 4a)
In court documents, Anthony Carter, a criminal investigator with Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office, described Garcia dropping off groceries in a white Toyota truck and noted “several Hispanic individuals from adults to small children seen entering and leaving” one of the El Paso shelter network’s facilities. Carter noted that only three people had keys to the shelter, while everyone else had to ring a doorbell. 
Rob Farquharson, an assistant attorney general in Paxton’s office, said in the same court documents that what Carter observed showed that the shelter had an “unusually covert way” of operating. He said Annunciation House appears “to be engaged in the business of human smuggling,” operating an “illegal stash house” and encouraging immigrants to enter the country illegally because it provides education on legal services. (Garcia’s lawyer said that’s just how migrant shelters operate, for the safety of guests and staff). 
“When we first read it, we thought it was creepy,” said Jerome Wesevich, a lawyer with Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid who is representing Annunciation House in its legal fight with Paxton. “I don’t know if I would call it spying, but if they would have just asked us, we would have talked to them.”  [emphasis added]


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