The weekend of August 3 & 4th, 2019 had one of the deadliest attacks on Americans in U.S. history with 22 being killed and 26 wounded in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. In Dayton, Ohio, 9 were killed and 27 were injured in the city’s entertainment district. The El Paso mass killings represented the worst attack on the Latino community in the history of our country. The common denominator in these attacks was that fact that assault weapons were used to inflict the deaths and injuries. In El Paso, racism was the motivating factor These acts strike at the heart of the ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities as the killings in El Paso specifically targeted Latinos, many of which were American citizens. The stories from the families of the survivors are heartbreaking and the fact many were doing back to school shopping for their children furthers the tragedy.
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Your support of the Hispanic Commission’s work is greatly appreciated and will help expand on our accomplishments and activities to date. The Commission is working on a variety of programs, including unauthorized practice of law (Notario Fraud), language access in the courts, voting rights, and much more.
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As tensions escalate on the Mexican border, the American Bar Association urges Congress and the White House to craft a comprehensive, peaceful resolution to our nation’s immigration challenges and to devote more resources to alleviate the backlog of asylum claims on the border and in United States’ immigration courts.
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ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights & Responsibilities: 321 N. Clark St., Suite 1700 Chicago, Illinois 60654 | Tel: (312) 988‐5137 | Email: skip.harsch@americanbar.org for inquiries
We conducted a half-day CLE program on timely topics pertinent to the Hispanic Legal Profession. For more information about the Commission, and to learn about future events please visit https://www.ambar.org/chlrr or contact Skip Harsh at skip.harsh@americanbar.org
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