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 CLAIM ON BEHALF OF IMMIGRANT FOR DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT AND PRIVACY VIOLATIONS BY HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
LOS ANGELES – A Latino civil rights organization is taking a first step toward a civil lawsuit and seeking $250,000 in damages from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center for an immigrant who was subjected to discriminatory and unlawful treatment while receiving medical treatment under continuous surveillance by federal immigration agents stationed in his room.
MAN WHO THREATENED MIGRANTS WITH A GUN IN EL PASO ORDERED TO PAY DAMAGES
SAN ANTONIO – A man who pointed a gun at migrants in El Paso and threatened them outside a church and a bus station was ordered by a state judge to pay damages for his harmful actions on Monday.
MALDEF SEEKS TO INTERVENE ON BEHALF OF STUDENTS TO DEFEND VIRGINIA TUITION POLICY
Richmond, VA – A Latino civil rights organization filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit seeking to eliminate regular tuition for students without lawful immigration status in Virginia, according to papers filed in federal court Thursday.
MALDEF APPEALS COURT RULING IN DISCRIMINATORY LENDING CASE
PHOENIX – A Latino civil rights organization is appealing a district court decision to compel arbitration in a class-action lawsuit against a Texas credit union. The lawsuit challenged GECU Federal Credit Union’s (GECU) policy of unlawfully refusing to consider loans and financial services to certain immigrants because of their status rather than their credit-worthiness.
JUDGE ALLOWS IMMIGRANT STUDENTS TO INTERVENE TO DEFEND KENTUCKY TUITION POLICY
FRANKFORT, KY– Students represented by MALDEF, a Latino civil rights organization, can intervene in a federal-government lawsuit seeking to eliminate regular tuition rates for students without lawful immigration status in Kentucky, according to a court order issued yesterday.
MALDEF SEEKS TO INTERVENE ON BEHALF OF STUDENTS TO DEFEND OKLAHOMA TUITION POLICY
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — A Latino civil rights organization filed a motion last week to intervene in a lawsuit that rescinded regular tuition for students without lawful immigration status in Oklahoma.
MALDEF CHALLENGES SPOKANE CREDIT UNION FOR VIOLATING WASHINGTON STATE LAW BY DISCRIMINATING AGAINST DACA RECIPIENTS
PASCO, Wash.– A Latino civil rights organization is challenging, for a second time, the discriminatory policies of a Spokane, Washington-based credit union for unlawfully denying DACA recipients financial services based on their citizenship or immigration status.
MALDEF STATEMENT ON BRIEFS FILED IN TEXAS CHALLENGE TO DACA
(LOS ANGELES) – Parties involved in a Texas-led challenge to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) filed court-ordered briefs on Monday about possible next steps in the long-running case.
MALDEF FILES APPEAL OF COURT DECISION BLOCKING STUDENTS FROM DEFENDING THE TEXAS DREAM ACT
WICHITA FALLS, TX —A Latino civil rights organization filed an appeal of a federal district court decision that denied some immigrant students the opportunity to defend a law allowing them to pay the same tuition as most students at public schools and universities in Texas.
MALDEF REQUESTS EN BANC REHEARING IN ARKANSAS VOTING RIGHTS CASE
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. – A Latino civil rights group is seeking an en banc review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in a challenge to an Arkansas law that places a limit on who may assist voters at the polls, including those who are not proficient in English, according to papers filed last week.