Mar 16, 2019 | News Releases, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – MALDEF sent a letter to Union City officials today warning that the city’s at-large system of electing the city council and mayor violates the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA). In the letter, sent to Mayor Carol Dutra-Vernaci, MALDEF...
Mar 14, 2019 | 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 statement below in response to a bipartisan Senate vote today rejecting Donald J. Trump’s unlawful emergency declaration at the...
Mar 13, 2019 | DACA, News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
Washington, D.C. – Lawmakers have introduced HR 6 – the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 – a bill that would provide a humane and sensible path to legalization for immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and currently have Deferred Action for Childhood...
Mar 7, 2019 | News Releases, Uncategorized, Voting Rights
LOS ANGELES – A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former mayor of Poway that sought to overturn the city’s district based election system and challenged the constitutionality of the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA). “The civil-rights...
Mar 7, 2019 | Census, News Releases, Voting 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 today’s ruling by a federal court in California blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to...
