Immigrants’ Rights
Protecting Immigrants’ Rights
Throughout our history, we’ve been on the frontlines of some of the most important legal battles to protect immigrants’ rights, taking on unconstitutional federal, state, and local measures including California’s Proposition 187, Arizona’s SB 1070, and more recent restrictions in Texas in SB 4. We’ve challenged unlawful detention and raids, fought to protect the right of day laborers to seek work, and defended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative that offers temporary relief to young immigrants brought to this country as children.
Today, MALDEF continues to work to eliminate barriers that prevent immigrants from achieving full integration into society, and to target private anti-immigrant discriminators as well.
Immigrants’ Rights
MALDEF FILES CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATORY POLICY OF A NEW YORK CREDIT UNION
NEW YORK — A Latino civil rights organization filed a class-action lawsuit against a New York-based credit union for denying access to loan products to recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other immigrants solely because of their citizenship status, according to papers filed in federal court on Friday.
FEDERAL COURT DENIES PROPERTY COMPANY’S MOTION TO DISMISS IN HOUSING DISCRIMINATION CASE
NEW JERSEY — A federal court has denied a motion to dismiss filed by two defendants in a housing discrimination lawsuit challenging their policy of refusing to rent to recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other immigrants based solely on immigration status. One of the three defendants, Inverness Apartments, LLC, was dismissed with the possibility of being renamed if evidence shows it is complicit in the discrimination by the other defendants.
JUDGE GRANTS PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF CLASS-ACTION SETTLEMENT IN DISCRIMINATORY-LENDING LAWSUIT
LOS ANGELES – A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a class-action settlement between NuVision Credit Union and recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other immigrants who were denied loans and financial services based on their immigration status rather than their ability to repay.
JUDGE ALLOWS MALDEF CLIENTS TO INTERVENE IN HUNTINGTON BEACH LAWSUIT CHALLENGING SANCTUARY LAW
FEDERAL COURT ALLOWS CHALLENGE TO LAS VEGAS/ICE POLICY ON IMMIGRANT DETAINERS TO PROCEED
MALDEF INTERVENES ON BEHALF OF STUDENTS TO DEFEND THE TEXAS DREAM ACT
JUDGE GRANTS FINAL APPROVAL OF CLASS-ACTION SETTLEMENT IN LENDING-DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT
JUDGE GRANTS FINAL APPROVAL OF CLASS-ACTION SETTLEMENT IN DISCRIMINATORY-LENDING LAWSUIT
MALDEF STATEMENT ON DEADLINE TO SEEK SUPREME COURT REVIEW OF FIFTH CIRCUIT DACA RULING
LOS ANGELES – None of the parties in the case of Texas v. United States sought discretionary Supreme Court review of the Fifth Circuit decision by yesterday’s extended deadline. The case will now move to the implementation phase with respect to the Fifth Circuit decision on the legality of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).