“He was fearless and argued with the fire and brimstone passion of a legal preacher.”
to stop the Texas secretary of state from requiring nearly 100,000 voters to prove their citizenship or risk being removed from the voter rolls, a tactic that disproportionately impacts the Latino community.to uphold the "sanctuary" status of border town El Cenizo and halt a measure that allowed law enforcement to question and detain undocumented residents., one of the highest federal recognitions that is given to those whose work empowers and supports Mexicans and Latinos.
"He was a fierce fighter for what is right and persisted even when the odds were against LULAC, as has been the case often given today's volatile politics," Elsie Valdes-Ramos, LULAC national board member and vice president for women, said in a statement. "I knew we had in Luis, a tireless defender and a man who any enticement could never sway, nor was he seeking fame for himself," she said.
“Latinos in Texas and indeed, our entire nation and Puerto Rico, have lost a selfless and brilliant legal fighter, cut from the same civil rights cloth as Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta,” Rodolfo Rosales Jr., LULAC’s Texas state director, said in a statement.Despite his illness, Vera was actively working as the organization’s counsel until very recently, according to the LULAC statement.Vera earned both an undergraduate and a graduate degree from St.
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