Immigrants’ Rights

Los Angeles, CA – Please attribute the following statement on Donald Trump’s fear-mongering speech in response to an imaginary “crisis” at the southern border to Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican...

Los Angeles, CA – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), issued the following statement today in response to a lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney...

Los Angeles, CA – The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to bypass the federal appeals process and rule on its efforts to the end the DACA initiative. Please attribute the following statement on...

Ruling in Texas v. United States, a federal judge denied a request by Texas and other states for an injunction to block renewals of DACA grants. MALDEF represents 22 defendant-intervenors in the case.

Los Angeles, CA – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), issued the followed statement today on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton repeated...

Houston, TX – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) held a telephone briefing for reporters Wednesday to discuss a federal court hearing on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative....

Birmingham, AL – The State of Alabama sued the federal government in May seeking to define undocumented immigrants as non-persons under the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, the state seeks to exclude these immigrants from...

Los Angeles, CA – Arizona must accept proof of work authorization as sufficient documentation from immigrants seeking to obtain driver’s licenses, a federal court ruled this week. The decision in Valenzuela v. Ducey, a...

Transgender man seeks right to sue over law prohibiting non-citizens from obtaining a change of legal name

Transgender man seeks right to sue over law prohibiting non-citizens from obtaining a change of legal name. Doe v. Holcomb. 

Brownsville, TX – A federal judge today allowed nearly two dozen young immigrants who grew up in the United States and are recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to intervene in a lawsuit filed by...

Brownsville, TX – Nearly two dozen young immigrants who grew up in the United States and are recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) are asking a federal court to allow them to intervene in a lawsuit...

Texas and six other states are challenging the constitutionality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. Here is a timeline prepared by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) of...

Los Angeles, CA – Please attribute the following statement in response to a lawsuit filed by Texas and six other states challenging the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative to Thomas A. Saenz, president...

Los Angeles, CA – The United States Supreme Court decided today to let stand a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that barred Arizona from denying driver’s licenses to people protected under the...