Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Noticiario Noticiario_Summer2017

Summer 2017
Issue
Conference 2018
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American Englishes:
Celebrating Fluencies
Kudos Korner
My Mother’s Language
History: Lenguaje de la
Familia
Regional Reps
Spotlight
Regional Highlights
Editor’s Corner
Photo credit: https://therivardreport.com/sanctuary-cities-law-critics-rally-at-u-s-courthouse-as-hearing-begins/
In May, TACHE joined the City of San Antonio, La Union del
Pueblo Entero (LUPE) and the Workers Defense Project
(WDP) as plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).
The lawsuit is asking a federal court to block Texas from
implementing the controversial Senate Bill 4 (SB4) on the
grounds that it violates the First, Fourth and Fourteenth
Amendments of the United States Constitution as well as
other constitutional and statutory provisions. The TACHE
executive board voted to take this action due to the many
ways that SB4 will be detrimental to our institutional
membership as well as individual members.
While TACHE members joined many in Austin to testify
against SB4 as it moved through the legislature, it passed
and is destined to become law on September 1 st unless it is
blocked.
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