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ALLEGED: Latino Students Discriminated Against in Louisiana Head Start Programs
May 30, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLU) and other civil rights organizations are alleging head start centers in the Jefferson Parish in Louisiana are discriminating against Latino families. continue reading »
Justice Dept. to Investigate Latino Students, Families Facing Discrimination in Louisiana
November 21, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) welcomed an announcement by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education that they will investigate two additional components of an SPLC civil rights complaint that describes widespread discrimination against Latino students and their families in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish Public School System (JPPSS). continue reading »
Georgia Governor Appoints Hate Group Leader to Immigration Board
September 6, 2011 | by Southern Poverty Law Center | Latino Daily News
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal today appointed a longtime leader in an anti-immigrant hate group to serve on a new state panel charged with enforcing the state’s harsh new immigration law. continue reading »
Anti-Latino Hate Crimes is Possible Trend Says Hatewatch Organization
August 18, 2011 | by Southern Poverty Law Center | Latino Daily News
Anti-Latino hate crimes in California spiked up by almost 50% last year, the state’s attorney general’s office reported Wednesday. That dramatic rise, from 81 such crimes in 2009 to 119 in 2010, followed a decade of declines. continue reading »
Coalition Asks Court to Block Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant HB 56 Law
July 22, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Southern Poverty Law Center and a coalition of other civil rights groups filed a motion asking a federal judge to block Alabama’s anti-immigrant law from taking effect Sept. 1. continue reading »
ACLU Files Suit in Georgia Against Its “Show Me Your Papers” Immigration Law
June 3, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The American Civil Liberties Union, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and a coalition of other civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit challenging Georgia’s continue reading »
Man Believed to Have “Racist Views” Invited to Speak to State Senate on Arizona-Mexico Border
March 18, 2011 | by The Washington Post | Latino Daily News
A man described as a “vitriolic Mexican-basher” who looks for white supremacists to join his group was invited by an Arizona lawmaker to speak to a state Senate’s border security committee about his assessment of the Arizona-Mexico border. continue reading »
Official Hate Groups in U.S. Top 1,000 – First Time Ever Number is So High
February 24, 2011 | by Southern Law Poverty Center | Latino Daily News
Hate groups topped 1,000 for the first time since the Southern Poverty Law Center began counting such groups in the 1980s. Anti-immigrant vigilante groups, despite having some of the political wind taken out of their sails by the adoption of hard-line anti-immigration laws around the country, continued to rise slowly. continue reading »
