Judge issues ruling that protects a migrant shelter that Texas sought to close

Migrant parents socialise outside the Annunciation House in El Paso (Matt York/AP)

A Texas judge has ruled against the state attorney general in his effort to shut down a migrant shelter in El Paso that he claimed encourages illegal migration.

Judge Francisco X Dominguez in El Paso ruled that Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempts to enforce a subpoena for records of migrants served at the Annunciation House violated the constitutional rights of the shelter.