Feb 29, 2008 | Public Policy, Public Policy Immigrants' Rights
Truth in Immigration is a project created by MALDEF to rebut legal and factual inaccuracies about immigrants and Latinos. Anti-immigrant and anti-Latino stereotypes currently abound in the public arena. Political pundits, candidates for elected office, media networks,...
Feb 2, 2008 | Court Cases Immigrants' Rights
In November 2004, the Morales family and their friend Emma English, all United States citizens, were assaulted by border vigilante Roger Barnett while they were hunting on state land in southern Arizona. Armed with a semi-automatic military-style assault rifle,...
Jan 31, 2008 | Court Cases Education
For almost two decades the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) had planned to build new public schools on the land occupied by the now-demolished Ambassador Hotel. The construction of these desperately needed schools would create classrooms for more than 4,000...
Jan 16, 2008 | Court Cases Education, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights
In appreciation for the service of men and women in the U.S. military during a period of conflict, Texas’s Hazlewood Act provides a tuition waiver at Texas public colleges and universities for returning veterans. Although the program is intended to further the...
Dec 5, 2007 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
AUSTIN, TX – Today, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the nation’s leading Latino legal organization, presented its argument on behalf of LULAC and the GI Forum before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to defend the...
