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Summary:This brief reviews the Administration's enforcement and deporation policies from a Latino perspective, and assesses why the Obama Administration has earned the dubious distinction of breaking deportation records.
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Summary:This report removes all doubt: Voting discrimination against Latinos is egregious and far-reaching.
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Summary:This guide contains comprehensive information to help potential applicants and licensed attorneys navigate the application and renewal process for
both 2012 "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" and employment authorization. For example, the guide provides answers to some of the most frequently asked questions raised by DREAMers to date, including how to correctly file for "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" and whether a driver's license is possible after getting the 2012 deferred action.
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Summary:The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of the 30 leading Hispanic organizations from across the country, released the 2012 Hispanic Public Policy Agenda at a Washington, D.C.. The agenda presents recommendations in the fields of economic empowerment, education, civil rights, immigration, government accountability, and health along with providing specific and tangible recommendations for advancing the social and economic status of the Latino community. Click here to access the report.
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Summary:MALDEF's commitment to ensure Latino communities receive their fair share of public funds and political representation be reaching millions of Latinos for an accurate and complete 2010 Census count used a multi-media strategy that included an educational English and Spanish comic book by nationally syndicated cartoonist, Lalo Alcaraz, also known as "La Cucaracha".
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Summary:MALDEF's commitment to ensure Latino communities receive their fair share of public funds and political representation be reaching millions of Latinos for an accurate and complete 2010 Census count used a multi-media strategy that included an educational English and Spanish comic book by nationally syndicated cartoonist, Lalo Alcaraz, also known as "La Cucaracha".
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Summary:For the past year, MALDEF and the National Education Association (NEA) have worked together to refine a report that will help parents and communities across the country more easily overcome the challenges facing minority students in our schools. The report aims to increase the active involvement of minority parents in their children's schools by identifying obstacles to such engagement and recommending strategies for parents, schools and communities to come together and overcome these obstacles. Click here to access the report.
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Summary: MALDEF and Lambda Legal released a comic titled ¡Vivan Los Tribunales Justos! This comic educates readers on the judicial system and its affect on civil rights. Click here to read this comic.
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Summary: MALDEF releases its 2009 Annual Report, featuring a photo essay by George Rodriguez. Regarded as a "people's historian," George Rodriguez is an acclaimed photojournalist who has documented MALDEF's evolution as well as the Latino community's struggles and successes over the past several decades. Click here to access the MALDEF 2009 Annual Report.
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Summary: This handbook provides a general overview, legal framework and historical data of the redistricting process. In the last census, it was clear that America's demographics changed dramatically. The changing face of America raised important questions throughout our society, especially in electoral politics. Redistricting determines how our local school board, city council, state legislature and even congressional districts are drawn.
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MALDEF and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)
Summary: Listening to Latinas addresses the challenges facing Latina students in the United States today and explores ways to overcome obstacles that undermine their chances for success. With this report, MALDEF and NWLC bring new voices to the conversation: those of Latina students themselves and the adults who work with them on a daily basis.
Latinas are dropping out of school in alarming numbers—a pattern that has serious and damaging repercussions for their future prospects and economic security. Yet little research has been done on the particular barriers that Latinas face or the strategies that might maximize their chances for success. This report aims to start filling that gap.
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National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), August 2008
Summary: The NHLA 2008 Hispanic Policy Agenda is a comprehensive document that addresses prime policy issues facing Hispanics in six main issue areas: education, civil rights, immigration, economic empowerment, health, and government accountability.
MALDEF and Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), June 2008
Summary: This briefing book presents a proactive agenda to assist newcomers and English Language Learners, including a legal background and summaries and suggested talking points for legislators. This briefing book intends to educate staff on (1) the demographics of the LEP community; (2) the law supporting the rights of this minority community; (3) the sectors where language access most impacts language minorities; (4) recent English Only legislation in Congress; and (5) a proactive approach to ensuring the civil rights of the LEP community, while enhancing their language acquisition.
MALDEF and UCLA Civil Rights Project/Projecto Derechos Civiles, February 2008
Summary: Preserving Integration Options for Latino Children: Legal Issues and Community Strategies is a manual for educators, civil rights and community leaders aimed to promote and protect the educational opportunities for Latino children consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Parents Involved in Community Schools (PICS).
MALDEF and National Endowment for Financial Education, 2007
Summary: This guide provides helpful financial information for Latinos living in the United States.
June 2006
Summary: The report studies evidence of racially discriminatory and exclusionary practices that continue to plague the Texas electoral system despite legal challenges and gradual progress. In anticipation of the renewal of the historic Voting Rights Act, the report concludes that the expiring provisions of the Act should be renewed for 25 years.
Summary: MALDEF’s State and Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinance Toolkit addresses one of the most important legal issues facing the Latino community today. Achieving comprehensive immigration reform is at the top of MALDEF’s legal agenda. As the U.S. House failed to move forward to complete legislative action last year, frustrations by anti-immigrant activists led to a small number of cities and town attempting to enact restrictions and prohibitions against illegal immigrants at the local level. MALDEF strongly opposes and will continue to fight local ordinances because they threaten to discriminate against all Latinos, citizen and newcomer alike. This guide describes the ordinances and their legal flaws, and provides arguments than can be utilized against them.
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1993
Summary: MALDEF releases its 25th Anniversary Report.
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1978
Summary: MALDEF releases its 10th Anniversary Report.
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