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Sent to the ‘Mexican school’ 75 years ago, Sylvia Mendez’s fight for equality continues
By Paloma Esquivel | LA Times | APR. 14, 2022 | Photo by Gina Ferazzi On a spring morning, Sylvia Mendez walked into an eighth-grade history classroom in Santa Ana ... -
Lawsuit filed in CA alleges unlawful discrimination after credit union’s denial of loan application from ...
By John L. Culhane, Jr. | Consumer Finance Monitor | MAR. 31, 2022 In a new lawsuit filed in a California federal district court, a recipient of Deferred Action for ... -
U.S. citizens locked out of stimulus payments turn to federal courts
By: Aaron Lorenzo ~ Politico ~ May 6, 2020 "Discrimination based on the fundamental right to marry is presumptively unconstitutional and subject to strict scrutiny," one suit argues. Some U.S. ... -
After a waiter's demand for 'proof of residency,' familiar echoes of discrimination take on new ...
By: Anh Do, Cindy Carcamo, Ruben Vives and Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times ~ March 21, 2017 The wary eye of a salesclerk. A snide comment made by a passerby. A ... -
Border Patrol needs to crack down on internal corruption
A Border Patrol agent along the Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, in November. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times) By BRIAN BENNETTcontact the reporter S. Customs and Border Protection Gil Kerlikowske ... -
L.A. County's kinder, gentler, totally immoral deportation scheme
A. County ends its partnership with ICE for deporting inmates, replaces it with equally heartless one By TED RALL, l.a. times ~ may 18, 2015 On Tuesday the Los Angeles County ...