Nov 26, 2025 | News Releases
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) mourns the passing of Alicia R. Chacón, a former national chair and board member of MALDEF. She died Tuesday at 87. Born in Canutillo, Texas, Chacón began advocating for her community at a...
Nov 18, 2025 | News Releases, Voting Rights
EL PASO, Texas – A federal court today issued a preliminary injunction blocking Texas from implementing its mid-cycle congressional redistricting plan, preventing the plan from taking effect for the 2026 elections. The ruling comes in MALDEF’s challenge to Texas’...
Sep 30, 2025 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
(LOS ANGELES) – Parties involved in a Texas-led challenge to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) filed court-ordered briefs on Monday about possible next steps in the long-running case. In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that...
Sep 22, 2025 | Court Cases Education, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
WICHITA FALLS, TX —A Latino civil rights organization filed an appeal of a federal district court decision that denied some immigrant students the opportunity to defend a law allowing them to pay the same tuition as most students at public schools and universities in...
Sep 8, 2025 | News Releases, Public Policy Freedom from Open and Obvious Bias and Racism, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted court-ordered restrictions on immigration stops by federal agents in Los Angeles. In July, U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong placed a restraining order on “roving patrols” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
