LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Latinos are 19 percent of the U.S. population, and 14 percent of the voting agepopulation. Despite the size of the population, Latinos continue to facediscrimination, including in access to voting. Founded in 1972, LatinoJusticePRLDEF (LJP) is a national civil rights organization committed todecreasing discrimination toward Latino communities through advocacy,education,andlitigation.LJP,alongwithpeercivilrightsorganizations,community-based organizations, and pro bono firms and lawyers,have successfully challenged systemic discriminatory practices. Thecollective impact has benefited Latinos and American society at large. Withrenewed Corporation support, LatinoJustice PRLDEF will continue its votingrights and immigrant civic integration work in the states.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1972 as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, LatinoJustice PRLDEF is a national civil rights organization that uses litigation, advocacy, and community education to fight back unlawful, discriminatory practices against Latino communities. Using the federal and local court systems, LatinoJustice PRLDEF has successfully challenged systemic discrimination against hundreds of thousands of American citizens, immigrants, and even non-Latino persons, with the objective of advancing a more inclusive vision for the United States. The organization’s primary issue areas are immigration, criminal justice, labor and economic justice, voting rights, and redistricting. With Corporation support, LatinoJustice PRLDEF will continue to defend the rights of Latinos in the United States and help change public narratives around immigration and immigrant communities.
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For core support of its Immigrant Justice Program
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
18 months
Description
In recent years, Latinos in the United States have become the subjects of harmful political rhetoric and anti-immigrant policies that traumatize families and disrupt entire communities. Asylum seeking parents from Central America continue to be separated from their young children at the southern border and the federal government is executing widespread deportation raids, leaving spouses and children often unaware of their detained family’s whereabouts. With continuous and deepening attacks against immigrants and immigration laws, preventing further erosion of the legal immigration system is paramount. LatinoJustice PRLDEF has been using legal advocacy, community education, and impact litigation to protect and defend the civil rights of Latino immigrants since 1972.
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Project Title
Toward an initiative to promote immigrant legal rights at the local level
Date
Mar. 01, 2007
Duration
12 months
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Project Title
Toward promoting immigrant legal rights at the local level
Date
Dec. 06, 2007
Duration
24 months