Dec 22, 2020 | News Releases, PP Voting Rights, Public Policy
LOS ANGELES – California Gov. Gavin Newsom today named Alex Padilla to fill the U.S. Senate seat to become vacant when Kamala Harris becomes Vice President of the United States. Padilla, who is currently Secretary of State, will be the first Latino to represent...
Dec 18, 2020 | Census, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to rule on the Trump administration’s impending attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census count used to allocate seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The court dismissed the case in an...
Dec 15, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) held a press briefing Monday to discuss the recent updates to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and an upcoming hearing in Texas in a multi-state challenge to DACA. In 2018, a...
Dec 11, 2020 | Court Cases Access to Justice, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
ATLANTA – A transgender asylum seeker held in solitary confinement for six months solely because of his gender identity is suing the federal government. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and the law firm Eshman Begnaud filed the suit on...
Dec 7, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, DACA, News Releases
SAN FRANCISCO – A Latino civil rights group is expanding a lawsuit filed by DACA recipients challenging a national bank’s lending policies to a federal class action, according to documents filed in federal court today. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and...
