Jun 24, 2022 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Access to Justice
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,...
Jun 22, 2022 | News Releases, Voting Rights
St. LOUIS, Mo. – Civil rights groups are suing Missouri state and local officials over a state election provision that disenfranchises voters with limited English proficiency or with disabilities who require assistance in casting a ballot. MALDEF (Mexican American...
Jun 16, 2022 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – Today, we mark a decade since the Obama administration announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative that allows young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children without documents to remain here and obtain renewable work...
Jun 15, 2022 | Court Cases Education, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases, Plyler v. Doe, Public Policy, Public Policy Education, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES – Today marks the 40th anniversary Plyler v. Doe, of one our nation’s most consequential constitutional decisions and a singular achievement in the history of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund). In 1977, MALDEF filed a federal...
