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The first legal victory against U.S. segregation was in San Diego County in 1930, when Mexican American parents successfully sued the Lemon Grove district to integrate. But years passed before the ...
WASHINGTON - A leading U.S. civil rights group on Monday filed a lawsuit targeting President Donald Trump's sweeping ban on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the restrictions effectively ...
The US is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world, second only to Mexico itself, and is over 24% of the entire Mexican-origin population of the world (Canada is a distant third with a small Mexican Canadian population of 96,055 or 0.3% of the population as of 2011). [34]
Hundreds of migrants waited in long lines outside an immigration office in southern Mexico on Monday, hoping to secure safe passage north and enter the U.S. legally before President-elect Donald ...
Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) was a 1970 federal court case in the Southern District of Texas which determined that Mexican Americans were an "identifiable ethnic-minority group," [1] and were subject to discriminatory educational practices.
Ferguson only applied to African Americans [2]), but de facto segregation was strongly enforced in direct contrast to the existing legislation much to the detriment of the Mexican-American community. At the time, the United States had no immigration limits on Mexican-Americans [7] and had many opportunities for labor though they paid relatively ...
President Donald Trump began his term by taking a series of sweeping immigration executive actions Monday that included declaring a national emergency at the US southern border, immediately ending ...
Mexican Americans, who were historically considered to be white, were unaffected by legal segregation and normally attended segregated white schools. The Mendez family, who previously went to white schools without problems, suddenly found their children forced into separate "Schools for Mexicans" when they came to Westminster, even though that ...