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Impact Of The League Of United Latin American Citizen

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In 1929 The League of United Latin American Citizen or LULAC was founded in Corpus Christi, TX. It is the most respected and oldest surviving civil rights organization for Hispanics in the United States. The League of United Latin American Citizen was established to empower its members to develop opportunities they needed due to the rise of the Texas middle class. During the time LULAC was created Hispanics were being denied human and civil rights, even thought they had made plenty of contributions to Americas society. Its founders were concerned with discrimination against Mexican Americas, with a main concentration on public education. Being Hispanic I wanted to research and learn about this organization or interest group and see how they …show more content…

This can be due to the public issues it fights for and assists with, which is for minorities that tend to side with the Democratic party. LULAC’s goal was to help Mexican Americans with health care, housing, status of employment, and education for all Hispanics living in the United States. One major case in Texas was in 1954 when LULAC won a suite against Texas to end the practice of excluding Mexican American from jury duty, Hernandez vs, the State of Texas. It was found to be unconstitutional by The Supreme Court. They also worked to help end segregation of Mexican Americans in public school by persuading the U.S. Supreme Court. Another contribution LULAC made was helping in the creation of the national Head Start program, which derived from the “Little School of the 400” program. Now a days LULAC goes out to Hispanic communities to help sponsor tutorial programs, health fairs, voter registration assistance, and raise funds for the scholarships it provides through the LULAC National Scholarship Fund. It has helped about 10 percent of Hispanic students that have attend …show more content…

Some controversial issues LULAC is involved in at this time is citizenship, voting and immigration. When it comes to voting LULAC encourages all eligible Latinos to register to vote, exercise their right vote and participate in the democratic process. Currently LULAC is continuing to fight against voter identification or the “voter ID” bill which was passed in 2011. Republicans said it was necessary to prevent further voting fraud but Democrats view it as a new form of poll taxing. They said this bill discourages minorities, people who don t have identification, and older individuals who vote Democratic. Pertaining to citizenship, they want immigration services to speed up the process for citizenship and clean up the backlog that have as well as advising all eligible immigrants to apply to become U.S citizens. Immigration one of the main concerns of LULAC at this current time. The do not support the border wall, and support the DREAM Act. They want to help undocumented children get into college and are trying to get the federal government to give them citizenship once they have graduated. They are also pushing the subject of undocumented workers in immigration reform, their reason is that they are a vital part of the U.S. labor force. LULAC would like to assist them by providing them a way to gain citizenship. As chapter three in Texas Politics book stated LULAC ran into some issues like financial

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