Jan 30, 2020 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
(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 a news report that Julie Kirchner, a former leader of FAIR, an anti-immigrant hate group, has...
Jan 28, 2020 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
(LOS ANGELES) – The U.S. Supreme Court today voted 5-4 to lift a preliminary injunction that blocked the Trump administration’s punitive “public charge rule” from taking effect. The rule seeks to impose unprecedented and alarming limits on legal immigration and...
Jan 27, 2020 | News Releases
(LOS ANGELES) – Former Columbia University President Michael I. Sovern died this week. A legal scholar and civil rights champion, he helped establish the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and served on its board from 1969 to 1975. Please...
Jan 17, 2020 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, News Releases
LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas city authorities’ policy of holding immigrants in jail after they have completed their sentences is unconstitutional, a lawsuit filed today charged. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and F. Travis Buchanan of The...
Jan 4, 2020 | DACA, News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
LOS ANGELES – The Washington Post today reported that Trump administration officials threatened to shut down the federal government last month over a dispute about a provision in a year-end spending bill that would have allowed immigrants who are authorized to work...
