Public Policy
MALDEF CALLS ON CITIES AND COUNTIES TO REJECT 287(G) IMMIGRATION AGREEMENTS
Los Angeles, CA – Please attribute the following statement on the Trump administration’s plan to revive and expand the use of the controversial program known as 287 (g) that deputizes local law enforcement officers to act as immigration agents to MALDEF President and General Counsel Thomas A. Saenz:
MALDEF STATEMENT ON RECENT ICE ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY
MALDEF STATEMENT OPPOSING CONFIRMATION OF DEVOS AS EDUCATION SECRETARY
MALDEF URGES DHS SEC. JOHNSON TO END USE OF PRIVATE PRISON OPERATORS FOR IMMIGRATION DETENTION
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Please attribute the following statement on the recommendations released Thursday by the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) on the use of private, for-profit immigration jails to Andrea Senteno, a legislative staff attorney with MALDEF. Senteno provided comment during a recent public meeting of the HSAC.
MALDEF RELEASES INITIAL FACT SHEET EXPLAINING IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS UNDER PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP
MALDEF AND NDLON ANNOUNCE JOINT IMMIGRANT CIVIL RIGHTS DEFENSE EFFORT
MALDEF APPLAUDS TEXAS BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR REJECTING OFFENSIVE TEXTBOOK
MALDEF STATEMENT ON REPORTS OF POST ELECTION BULLYING AT CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS
MALDEF STATEMENT ON THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
MALDEF ENDORSES CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 62, URGES “YES” VOTE TO END DEATH PENALTY
MALDEF ENDORSES CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 58, URGES “YES” VOTE
MALDEF SUPPORTS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS TO ENSURE SCHOOL FUNDING GETS TO STUDENTS IT IS SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT
WASHINGTON, DC – MALDEF supports the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed regulation on school funding, released yesterday. The regulation would implement a school finance provision known as “supplement not supplant” in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, reauthorized in December 2015 as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Equal Ballot Access for All
MALDEF was a driving force behind the 1975 federal Voting Rights Act renewal that extended protections to Latinos and the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA), which made it easi-er for protected groups to prove that their votes are being diluted. We engage with community groups to keep them up to date on their voting rights.
MALDEF/ LATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF STATEMENTS ON U.S. SUPREME COURT AFFIRMATION OF RACE-CONSCIOUS ADMISSIONS PROGRAMS
WASHINGTON, DC – This morning, the Supreme Court affirmed the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fisher v. University of Texas, and held that that the University of Texas at Austin’s race-conscious admission program is lawful under the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Late last year, MALDEF and LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed an amicus brief on behalf of over 20 national Latino advocacy groups supporting the race-conscious admissions program. Statements from MALDEF and LatinoJustice PRLDEF in reaction to today’s decision are below.