A Latino voting-rights group called Monday for a federal government investigation after its volunteers said Texas authorities raided their homes and seized their phones and computers as part of an investigation by the state’s Republican Attorney General into the proclamation of voter fraud.

While Paxton has protected the attacks, stating that there was adequate proof to lawfully get the search warrants, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is encouraging the Department of Justice to intercede.

LULAC contends that the attacks are politically spurred and planning to threaten and intimidate the voters.

“We feel like our votes are being suppressed,” Roman Palomares, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said Monday. “We’re going to get to the bottom of it.

No charges have been recorded against any targets of the searches that took place last week in the San Antonio area.

Attorney General Ken Paxton already affirmed his office had conducted searches after a local prosecutor referred to his office “allegations of election fraud and vote harvesting” during the 2022 election.

In a letter sent Monday to the DOJ’s respectful civil rights division, the president and CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens communicated the group’s “deep concern” that Paxton’s search and probe abused the respectful rights of Latino citizens in Texas.

The Tribune detailed last week that state agents went through seven hours in Medina’s house leaving with 65 cell phones, 41 computers, and archives and documents, including family photographs, concurring to a legitimate legal filing.

The office said its election integrity unit was looking into a referral from state District Attorney Audrey Louis, a conservative Republican, also a local lawyer over allegations of ballot and poll harvesting.

At a news conference outside Paxton’s office in San Antonio, LULAC individuals and Democratic activists condemned the attorney general, blaming him for organizing a campaign of terrorizing and intimidation against Latino voters.

“Attorney General Paxton is working to smother the Latino vote by utilizing a call for election integrity as a pretext for voter intimidation,” a LULAC agent said. “Paxton’s strategies will make a chilling impact that will smother the Latino vote this election cycle.”