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Kushner floats deal of permanent protections for 1.8 million dreamers, LULAC chief says
WASHINGTON – Top White House adviser Jared Kushner told members of Latino advocacy organizations on Thursday that President Donald Trump was willing to give 1.8 million Dreamers permanent protections from deportation […]
LULAC Sues Texas, Others Over Electoral College Vote System
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A coalition of activists and attorneys is suing Texas and three other states over their “winner-take-all” system of allocating Electoral College votes. The goal is to […]
LULAC Members Push For New Leadership Amid Immigration Debate
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – LULAC, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. is facing turmoil over its leader’s initial support for President Donald Trump’s immigration plan and it comes […]
LULAC Asks Congress to Save Land and Water Conservation Fund
By Brent Wilkes, LULAC Sometimes it’s easy to take things for granted. We may spend a Saturday with our families at a soccer game or cookout in a park, not […]
LULAC brings its 86-year battle for equality to Utah
By By Brent Wilkes, LULAC In the last two years, there has been a wave of police brutality against people of color. Last month, a 14-year-old girl in McKinney, Texas, was […]
New Mexico LULAC Rests In Redistricting Case
The New Mexico League of United Latin American Citizens submitted a written closing argument on Friday in its redistricting case, NM LULAC et al v. Duran et al. Here’s an excerpt from the document: Our […]
Latino Civil Rights Figures: LULAC
LULAC stands for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). The organization was founded in 1929 as a way to combat discrimination and empower Latinos in the U.S. The […]
LULAC Criticized for Mentoring Latino Students
Sometimes you can’t win for losing. It turns out that LULAC, trying to do a good thing in Farmers Branch, yes that Farmers Branch, in north Texas, is being criticized […]
LULAC Responds to ‘Don’t Vote’ Campaign
I wrote previously about how hard it is to vote anyway. Then, when people like Robert De Esposada — a highly paid Republican operative and a former highly placed party […]
NewsTaco Rundown – January 25, 2019
Lawsuits Allege ‘Grave Harm’ To Immigrant Children In Detention – CNN The Trump administration’s treatment of more than 10,000 immigrant children held in custody at shelters across the nation is […]