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Feb 26, 2020

LULAC Emerge Latino Conference Says Do It Now!

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Says Youths Don’t Have to Wait

Feb 19, 2020

LULAC Calls for Termination of North Brunswick Police Department Director and Urges Independent Investigation by NJ Attorney General Following Reports of Racial Profiling

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Responds to Reports that North Brunswick Township Police Department Target Black and Latino Neighborhoods to Fulfill Ticket Quotas

Feb 18, 2020

LULAC & NCOA Join Forces In 2020

Partnership Will Benefit Millions of Older Latinos

Feb 13, 2020

LULAC Connects Critical Latino Voting Block With Presidential Candidates In The Key Battleground State Of Nevada

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Org. Hosts Event with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Fmr. Mayor of South Bend, IN Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Steyer, to Address Pressing Issues for the Nearly Half a Million Eligible Latino Voters in Nevada

Feb 11, 2020

LULAC Historic Court Win Forces Pesticide Off Market

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Applauds End to Manufacture of Chlorpyrifos

Feb 8, 2020

LULAC: Federal Hate Crime Charges Against El Paso Walmart Suspect Only The Beginning Of Justice And Healing

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Stands In Solidarity With Community Scarred by Domestic Hate Attack

Feb 5, 2020

LULAC: Migrants Deported By Trump Administration Have Been Killed Upon Returning To Dangerous Conditions In Home Country

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Responds to the Latest Human Rights Watch Report Showing that More Than 200 People Deported from the U.S. Have Been Harmed or Killed Upon Returning to El Salvador

Feb 4, 2020

LULAC National Leadership Reacts to President Trump’s State of the Union Address

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization to Reacts to False Assertations made by President Trump Regarding Security & Immigration

Feb 3, 2020

Trump Continues To Fulfill Racist Agenda With Addition Of New Countries To Travel Ban

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Calls Out Trump Administration for Expanding List of Countries Included in Travel Ban, Bringing Total Number of Countries to 13

Feb 3, 2020

LULAC Denounces USCIS Public Charge Rule Implementation

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Stands Against the Public Charge Rule that Takes Away Basic Programs from Immigrants

Jan 30, 2020

LULAC Leads Successful Grassroots Campaign to Register Latino Voters In Iowa: One Out of Four Iowa Caucus-Goers Will be Latino

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization to Discuss Successful Voter Outreach Campaign; 70% of Adult Latinos Are Now Registered to Vote in the Hawkeye State

Jan 30, 2020

LULAC Lidera una Exitosa Campaña Popular para Registrar a Votantes Latinos en Iowa: Uno de Cada Cuatro Asistentes del Caucus de Iowa Será Latino

La Organización de Derechos Civiles Latinos Más Antigua y Grande de EEUU Reportará los Resultados de su Campaña Comunitario para Alcanzar más Votantes Hispanos; 70% de los Latinos Adultos están Ahora Registrados para Votar en Iowa

Jan 25, 2020

LULAC Remembers Rene Guzman

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Honors Texas Community Leader Who Inspired Goodwill

Jan 14, 2020

LULAC Congratulates Jovita Carranza As New Administrator Of Small Business Administration

LULAC Congratulates Jovita Carranza As New Administrator Of Small Business Administration

Jan 10, 2020

LULAC Remembers Benny Martinez For His Life Devoted To Justice

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Pays Tribute to Longtime Member Who Died at 85

Jan 8, 2020

LULAC pide ayuda Federal para Puerto Rico después del terremoto de 6.4

La Organización Latina de Derechos Civiles Más Antigua y Grande del País Insta a Aerolíneas de EEUU a Ofrecer Tarifas Aéreas Reducidas de Emergencia Para Viajar Desde la Isla

Jan 8, 2020

LULAC Asks For Federal Aid To Puerto Rico Following 6.4 Earthquake

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Urges US Airlines to Offer Emergency Reduced Airfares for Travel from Stricken Island

Jan 8, 2020

LULAC Warns Against Fear Of “The Other” Following Detentions

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Says Iranian-Americans the Latest Targeted at U.S. Borders

Jan 3, 2020

Trump Insults Christian Values at Latino Evangelical Church in South Florida

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Says Latino Community will Remember Injustices Against Most Vulnerable at Ballot Box

Dec 21, 2019

Car Attack On Teen In Iowa Adds To A Year Of Pain For Latinos In U.S.

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Says 2019 Marks a Tragic Time of Race-Based Hate Crimes

Nov 22, 2019

LULAC Demands Texas Substitute Teacher Be Permanently Disqualified From Instructing Students Following Racists Remarks

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization is Calling on the Texas Education Agency, a State with a Racist History of Banning Spanish in Public Schools, to Permanently Disqualify a Socorro School District Substitute Teacher from Instructing Students

Nov 11, 2019

LULAC Stands With Dreamers And Immigrant Communities Ahead Of DACA Supreme Court Hearing

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Demands that Congress Pass Permanent Protections for DACA Recipients

Nov 11, 2019

LULAC President Makes Surprise Visit To Deported Veterans In Mexico

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Arrives with Former Army Lt. Colonel, Now U.S. Senator

Nov 11, 2019

LULAC Honors America’s Veterans

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Pays Tribute to Freedom’s Protectors

Nov 8, 2019

LULAC Statement On Termination Of Harris County Assistant DA After Failing To Protect A Hispanic Victim Of Sexual Assault

HOUSTON, TX - Today, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued the following statement regarding the Harris County District Attorney’s Office termination today of John Denholm..

Nov 6, 2019

Harris County Assistant DA Should Be Terminated After Failing To Protect A Hispanic Victim Of Sexual Assault

HOUSTON, TX - Today, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued the following statement demanding that the Harris County District Attorney’s Office immediately terminate John Denholm, an assistant district attorney, for failing to file charges against a perpetrator of sexual assault because the victim was allegedly undocumented.

Nov 6, 2019

LULAC Applauds Milwaukee District Attorney’s Decision To File Hate Crime Charges In The Case Involving Mahud Villalaz Who Was Attacked And Burned With Acid

Milwaukee, WI - Today, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued the following statement applauding the decision by the Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, to charge Clifton Blackwell with first-degree reckless injury, as a hate crime..

Nov 5, 2019

LULAC Urges Milwaukee District Attorney To File Charges In Hate Crime Against Latino Man Who Was Attacked And Burned With Acid

Washington, DC – On Monday, November 4th, Milwaukee law enforcement officials arrested a suspect in connection with the alleged hate crime against Mahud Villalaz, a U.S. citizen from Peru living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Oct 29, 2019

LULAC Condemns Cruel Deportations Of U.S. Veterans, Military Families Separation

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Calls on USCIS to end family separation, deportations of military families following today’s House Committee hearing

Oct 28, 2019

LULAC Joins Its Legal Advisor In Mourning

Nation’s Oldest & Largest Civil Rights Organization Honors the Passing of Luis Roberto Vera Sr.