Interview with John Trasviña chief of Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in San Antonio

“John Trasviña became president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in November 2006. He had an official introduction to the San Antonio community at a luncheon at Museo Alameda on Thursday, the same day a federal judge ruled an anti-immigration ordinance in Hazelton, Pa., unconstitutional. Similar to an ordinance in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, Hazelton’s local law would have fined landlords who rented to undocumented immigrants and denied business permits to owners who hired them.

Trasviña talked with Express-News reporter Michelle De La Rosa about the ruling, his background and the organization’s impact in the Alamo City and Texas.”

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