Prior to a Center suit, Alabama immigrants seeking to obtain their state driver's license were turned away or asked to complete the English-only tests. Although the case was ultimately lost on appeal, due to the Center's lawsuit Alabama now offers the driver's license test in eight foreign languages.
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An Alabama tax assessor who used racial slurs denied tax exemptions to non-English speaking immigrant homeowners, and forced them to pay double the normal taxes. The Center filed suit, ending this discriminatory policy and securing reimbursements.
After learning that police in Fairfield, Alabama, may have been using a city ordinance to harass low-wage Latino day laborers, the SPLC and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network asked the police chief for public records to determine if Latinos were being targeted. When the police chief refused to respond, the SPLC and the day laborer group filed a lawsuit to compel him to release the records.
Features and Stories
Uno de los mas grandes comerciantes de frutas y verduras en Florida ha acordado pagar $215,000 para resolver las alegaciones de acoso sexual en una de las pocas demandas de esta clase traídas en defensa de trabajadoras agrícolas en los Estados Unidos.
Features and Stories
When Oscar heard that a poultry processing plant in Alabama was looking for workers, he thought he could apply the skills he learned from studying mechanical engineering in Cuba.
Immigrant Justice
The Trump administration has chosen to promote an extreme anti-immigrant agenda at the expense of families.
Its policy of separating thousands of children from their parents – and incarcerating them – is inhumane, morally reprehensible and completely unnecessary.
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