100 Days Later: The Harm So Far to Latinx Communities
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Ahead of the 2024 elections, LatinoJustice PRLDEF recognized that the goals laid out in the Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project, if taken up by the next administration, would hurt Latinx communities by rolling back many transformative civil rights advances achieved by Latinos, by immigrants, by women, by working people and by LGBTQ+ people.
Following up on our October 2024 report, A Promise to Harm, this report lays out the notable harm that Latino communities are already experiencing and potential longer-term harm down the road, and identifies steps to shore up systems that ensure that everyone has a fair shot to achieve their full potential, live freely and thrive.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF’s report found:
- How eliminating and freezing over 12,000 civil service positions within federal agencies, including the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Social Security Administration, are disrupting essential services for Latinx who depend on them;
- How 175 anti-immigrant executive orders and presidential actions have not only unjustly labeled immigrants – or people identified as immigrant – as “criminals, an invading force, and an ‘enemy within’,” but have led to illegal and unconstitutional actions against immigrants and citizens alike, and have violated fundamental due process rights that apply to all in the US;
- How attacks on “illegal DEI” are dismantling civil rights gains of many decades and threaten to not only erase contributions of Latinos and others to our history, economy, history and society, but to cut off equal access to opportunity in education and employment;
- How proposed changes to processes to register to vote, and oversight of voter rolls could illegally restrict access to the vote to tens of millions of people in the US, with disproportionate effects for Latino eligible voters;
- How defunding of environmental and disaster relief work will hurt the more than half of the Latino population that has been affected by extreme weather events in the past year.
100 Days Later concludes with highlights of legal, advocacy and public education efforts LatinoJustice is taking on, as well as encouragement to the public to continue exercising their First Amendment rights to hold elected officials, up to and including the president, to account.