San Antonio, TX – Two women who say they were sexually abused by guards while detained at a Texas immigration center today issued a new request to federal authorities demanding an investigation into the mishandling of their cases and release of any probe of the facility, according to civil rights attorneys.
Press Releases And Other Statements
MALDEF STATEMENT ON U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION TO UPHOLD TRUMP’S MUSLIM BAN
MALDEF STATEMENT ON ABBOTT V. PEREZ RULING BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
ARIZONA CANNOT DENY DRIVER’S LICENSES TO IMMIGRANTS WITH DEFERRED ACTION, COURT RULES IN LAWSUIT FILED BY MALDEF, NILC
MALDEF STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S EFFORTS TO INCREASE DETENTION OF MIGRANT FAMILIES
MALDEF HONORS THREE EXEMPLARY LEADERS AT ANNUAL CHICAGO AWARDS GALA
MALDEF DECRIES ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ TRAVESTY AND SEPARATION OF FAMILIES, CALLS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS TO RESIGN
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), released the following statement today on the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration stance that has led to forced separation of families and horrific accounts of children being taken from their parents:
MALDEF SUES CITY OF PLACENTIA FOR BREACH OF 2016 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT TO SECURE LATINO VOTING RIGHTS
APPEALS COURT RULES CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS CAN INTERVENE IN FEDERAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE CALIFORNIA VOTING RIGHTS ACT
ON 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ZOOT SUIT RIOTS, MALDEF PRESIDENT REFLECTS ON LESSONS FOR TODAY
MALDEF AND ADVANCING JUSTICE SUE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, CHALLENGING ADDITION OF CITIZENSHIP QUESTION TO 2020 CENSUS
LOS ANGELES – The Trump administration’s eleventh-hour decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census violates the U.S. Constitution because it is racially discriminatory and could result in a severe undercount of minorities, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by nearly two dozen groups and individuals.