The League of United Latin American Citizens is demanding a federal investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s probes of alleged illegal voter registration efforts after a number of law enforcement raids in the past week targeted Latino activists.
During a news conference in San Antonio on Monday, members of the nation’s oldest and largest Latino civil rights group and community advocates gathered to decry the raids by Paxton’s Election Integrity Unit as an invasion of privacy, a violation of civil rights and an attempt at voter suppression.
“It is evident through his (Paxton’s) patterns of lawsuits, raids, searches and seizures that he is trying to keep Latinos from voting,” Roman Palomares, the national president of LULAC, said during the news conference. “LULAC will not stand idly by and allow our members to be to be targeted, harassed, bullied or intimidated.”
On Friday, the Texas director for LULAC, Gabriel Rosales, first announced that several members of the group had been served search warrants at their homes in South Texas , prompting the organization to seek federal assistance in responding to what it views to be a series of civil rights violations.