Jan 12, 2024 | News Releases
CHICAGO – Griselda Vega Samuel, Midwest Regional Counsel for MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), is taking an unpaid leave from her position at the organization effective January 12, 2024. She is doing so in order to run for Cook County...
Jan 9, 2024 | DACA, Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
A Latino civil rights organization filed a class-action lawsuit last week against a Central California credit union for unlawfully denying a loan to a DACA recipient on the basis of her immigration status instead of her credit-worthiness. MALDEF (Mexican American...
Jan 6, 2024 | News Releases
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) mourns the passing of Herman Sillas, a noted civil rights attorney and founding board member of MALDEF, who died at the age of 89 in November 2023. Sillas was not only involved in the...
Dec 29, 2023 | DACA, Immigrants' Rights, Media, News Releases
Oakland, CA – A Latino civil rights organization filed a federal class-action lawsuit Friday against a credit union for unlawfully denying a home equity loan to a DACA recipient based on his immigration status. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and...
Dec 29, 2023 | Media, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) mourns the passing of Ignacio E. Lozano Jr., former publisher of La Opinion, the Spanish-language daily newspaper based in Los Angeles, who died Wednesday. Known to his friends as “Nacho,” he...
