SETTLEMENT FOR MAY DAY 2007 LAWSUITS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED BY LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL

http://www.maldef.org/news/press.cfm?ID=488

City agrees to settle all pending federal claims arising out of police misconduct against peaceful immigrants’ rights marchers

Confirmation of Hilda Solis As Our Nation’s First Latina Secretary of Labor

http://www.lulac.org/advocacy/press/2009/solis2.html

This is just a follow up to last weeks postings about Solis as our nation's first Latina Secretary of Labor and how she will play a big role in the high unemployment

Senate Committee approves Rep. Hilda Solis as President Barak Obama's nominee for Secretary of Labor

Latino Organizations and Labor Unions including LULAC, MALDEF, and the UFW are thanking the Senate health, education, labor, and pensions committee for approving Solis as Obama's Secretary of Labor. According Arturo Rodriguez, president of the UFW, "The senate panel’s approval brings us a step closer to protecting the working men and women who toil in the fields."

http://www.lulac.org/advocacy/press/2009/solis.html

http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=news_press&b_no=4912&page=1&field=&key=&n=561

NCLR News: PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNS CHILDREN'S HEALTH BILL, MAKES CRITICAL INVESTMENT IN LEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN

http://nclr.org/content/news/detail/55763/

article on Texas laws making it harder for legal foreign workers to acquire driver license

http://www.maldef.org/news/press.cfm?ID=485

article on the possibility of an immigration detention center in Los Angeles

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ladetain3-2009feb03,0,6198295.story