Nov 18, 2016 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
Two Leading Immigrant Rights Organizations Establish Fund and Seek Donations LOS ANGELES, CA – – Less than two weeks after Donald J. Trump was elected president, two national civil rights groups announced the launch of a joint legal defense fund...
Nov 21, 2013 | Court Cases Education, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
Arizona Violates State and Federal Law in Bid to Strip DACA students of in-state tuition PHOENIX, AZ – The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), together with the Ortega Law Firm and Haralson, Miller, Pitt, Feldman & McAnally, PLC, today...
Nov 7, 2013 | News Releases, Voting Rights
Pasadena, Texas Dilutes Latino Voting Strength Post Supreme Court Voting Rights Decision SAN ANTONIO, TX-Last night, the town of Pasadena, Texas narrowly passed a measure known as Proposition 1 that would reduce its eight single-member voting districts to six, and...
Oct 31, 2013 | News Releases, PP Voting Rights, Public Policy
Last November, the Latino community and its allies exercised a substantial and oft-remarked impact on the presidential election, resulting in renewed federal interest in addressing the policy priorities of the Latino community. At the same time, the growth of the...