WaPo: “Who might take him in?
“How could I say no?” recounted Ruben Garcia, looking at Wilson, who sat in a wheelchair before him. “There was no one else.”
The influential patriarchof Annunciation House, a faith-based network of shelters based in El Paso, Garcia has taken in tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants he calls “guests” for nearly five decades. Working in collaboration with U.S. immigration officials, he provides them food, clothes and a first home in the United States, and some of his expenses are reimbursed by the federal government. It’s work he sees as a religious calling — to help the most vulnerable, no matter how they arrived.
But as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott(R)clamps down on illegal immigration, state investigators are raising questions about Garcia’s humanitarian work. In court records, they contend that his shelters are “stash houses” sheltering the undocumented from authorities.”