Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, University of Texas journalism professor, has made a mark for herself with her books and advocacy of the Mexican American World War II veterans. Rivas-Rodriguez founded the ...

A national Latino legal and civil rights organization has been going after financial institutions for allegedly implementing policies that discriminate against eligible DACA recipients by denying them ...

On Tuesday, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, will hold its annual awards gala and fundraiser in downtown Los Angeles. The awardees include such indisputable worthies ...

Every once in a while, I hear of a situation in which a school district employee doesn’t know that children are entitled to a free K-12 public education in this country regardless of their immigration ...

Yesterday the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued a remarkable statement slamming President Biden for his “ongoing shabby treatment of the Latino community” in judicial ...

For the 25th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Plyler v. Doe--which obligated public schools to enroll children regardless of their immigration status--I spent three days last ...

The new leader of the nation's largest Latino legal advocacy organization says immigrants' rights forces should focus on modest gains - such as the right to an education for the undocumented, and the ...

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SAN ANTONIO - You wouldn't know their faces. Their heads are usually buried in law books, too many of their waking moments spent in front of glowing laptops. When they see sunlight it's usually before ...

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