News Releases
MALDEF STATEMENT ON NINTH CIRCUIT DECISION UPHOLDING MOST OF CALIFORNIA SANCTUARY LAWS
SAN FRANCISCO – A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today upheld the entirety of California Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), which enacted important limits on cooperation by state and local officials with federal immigration authorities, and significant portions of two other state “sanctuary” laws challenged by the Trump administration. SB 54, signed into law in 2017, increases immigrant community cooperation with local law enforcement agencies by restricting their involvement in immigration enforcement.
Civil Rights Organizations Contest Finding of Non-Discrimination in Maryland Census Ruling
MALDEF Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary By Honoring Latino Leaders at 2019 DC Gala
Maryland Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration’s Addition of A Census Citizenship Question
MALDEF Statement on National Day of Action for a Full and Accurate 2020 Census Count
MALDEF STATEMENT ON CHICAGO’S MUNICIPAL RUNOFF ELECTION
MALDEF Warns New Haven Unified School District of California Voting Rights Act Violations
MALDEF Warns Adelanto Elementary School District of California Voting Rights Act Violations
MALDEF Warns Union City of California Voting Rights Act Violation
MALDEF Responds to Rebuke of Trump’s Emergency Border Declaration
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the statement below in response to a bipartisan Senate vote today rejecting Donald J. Trump’s unlawful emergency declaration at the Southwestern border. A similar resolution passed the House of Representatives last month.
MALDEF Statement in Support of the Dream and Promise Act
Washington, D.C. – Lawmakers have introduced HR 6 – the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 – a bill that would provide a humane and sensible path to legalization for immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and currently have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, (DACA), as well as those granted Deferred Enforcement Departure (DED) and Temporary Protected Status, (TPS) because of civil war or natural disasters in their home countries.
Federal Court Ruling Dismisses Challenge to the California Voting Rights Act
MALDEF Statement On Second Federal Court Ruling Blocking Addition of Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to today’s ruling by a federal court in California blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census: