A Texas-based company that’s gathering signatures for a vote on Missouri’s congressional redistricting is strongly denying Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s claim they’re employing immigrants without legal status.

The group seeking to place the state’s congressional map up for a vote is accusing Hanaway, a Republican, of “political thuggery” in trying to scare people away from signing the referendum petition.

On Thursday, Hanaway sent out a tweet accusing Dallas-based Advanced Micro Targeting of “reportedly employing illegal aliens in their efforts to undermine the will of the people’s elected representatives.”

After saying that she was opening up an investigation into the company that’s working with People Not Politicians, Hanaway added she’s referred the matter to Immigrati

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