Dec 24, 2018 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES – Please attribute the following statement on the partial shutdown of the federal government resulting from Donald Trump’s petulant demand for an unnecessary wall along the southern border to Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF...
Dec 6, 2018 | News Releases
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF is pleased to announce the recipients in its 2017-2018 Law School Scholarship Program. Since MALDEF’s founding, the civil rights organization has awarded scholarships to law students who will further MALDEF’s mission of advancing the civil...
Nov 30, 2018 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), issued the following statement today in response to a lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General’s office against the City of San...
Nov 27, 2018 | 50th Anniversary, News Releases
As MALDEF commemorates its 50th anniversary we thank you for your support past and present. Your contribution helps us protect the right to vote; to challenge the addition of a citizenship question to Census 2020; to remind everyone of the Constitutional guarantee of...
Nov 16, 2018 | Court Cases Employment, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – On May 3, 2018, MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) filed a lawsuit, on behalf of an individual job applicant work-authorized through DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which alleged that the plaintiff was...
