Vice President Mike Pence rallied a Florida church full of potential Latino voters on Thursday evening by appealing to their faith and announcing a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidates descended on Nevada on Saturday in an attempt to build relationships with Latino voters and win the coveted endorsement of the powerful casino workers’ Culinary Union.
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Partisan frustrations over the 2020 census flared Thursday on Capitol Hill as House Democrats consulted experts on how to reach hard-to-count communities when the once-in-a-decade tally gets underway.
Read moreFlanked by her former Democratic rival Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren rallied supporters in Brooklyn Tuesday with her standard stump speech, calling for an end to financial corruption and a better life for America’s working families.
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Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid got a boost Monday from one of the top Latinos in the Democratic Party, as Julian Castro threw his weight behind the Massachusetts senator days after ending his own 2020 campaign.
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An Iowa woman who told police she intentionally ran over a teenager because she believed the girl was Mexican has been charged with another hit-and-run crash that hurt a 12-year-old boy.
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Joe Biden’s presidential bid got a boost Monday from one of the leading Latinos in Congress, with the chairman of the Hispanic Caucus’ political arm endorsing the former vice president as Democrats’ best hope to defeat President Donald Trump.
Read moreEdward Espinal, 44, of Wayne, N.J., defrauded Latino investors of at least $5 million through his company, Cash Flow Partners, the SEC claims in federal court.
Read moreA former deputy public defender claims in superior court that his supervisor at the Maricopa County (Ariz.) Public Defender’s Office, et al., fired him after he objected to underrepresentation of Latinos in county jury pools.
Read moreThe Center For Popular Democracy Action and the City of Newburgh, NY sued the Census Bureau and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in federal court, claiming their 2020 Census plans sharply reduce resources for counting black, Latino and other communities that the Census Bureau calls “hard to count.”
Read moreA Latino man’s claims relating to his detention by Customs and Border Protection officers at a bus station may continue, a federal court in Washington ruled. The government may be liable under the state’s anti-discrimination law because the acts of the officers caused the man to be “treated as not welcome, accepted, desired, or solicited” based on his race.
Read moreThree Colombian nationals residing in Los Angeles were arraigned Monday on federal grand jury charges of defrauding elderly Hispanic women in a scam that sought payments from victims in order to cash purported winning lottery tickets.
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A 61-year-old white Milwaukee man accused of throwing acid on a Latino U.S. citizen’s face will be charged with a hate crime, increasing the sentence he may receive if convicted, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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A court-appointed investigator concluded that high-ranking managers for former metro Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio disregarded a federal judge’s order for Arpaio to halt immigration sweeps targeting Latinos, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Read moreJosé Diaz sued Target Corp. for discrimination in federal court, claiming he was told he should put Jonathan instead of José on his nametag, because his given name would scare customers at the upscale white neighborhood in Freeport, N.Y.
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The Seventh Circuit revived a class action against Ford that claims the hiring process at its Chicago plant discriminates against Latino workers.
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Evidence supports a rival candidate’s claim that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan planted sham candidates on the ballot to dilute the Latino vote in his district, a federal judge ruled, but voters were aware of his conduct and voted for him anyway.
Read moreA naturalized U.S. citizen claims in a federal complaint that the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office jailed him for three days because of his Latino last name and falsely classified him as an out-of-state fugitive, though it had in its possession his U.S. passport, Social Security card and certificate of naturalization.
Read moreActresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and an immigration raid in Mississippi.
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