{"id":134701,"date":"2024-08-28T02:49:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=134701"},"modified":"2024-08-28T02:49:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:49:54","slug":"latino-civil-rights-group-demands-inquiry-into-texas-voter-fraud-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=134701","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Latino Civil Rights Group Demands Inquiry Into Texas Voter Fraud Raids&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/25\/us\/texas-latinos-democrats-raids-paxton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;A Latino civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation into a series of raids conducted on Latino voting activists and political operatives as part of a sprawling voter fraud inquiry by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the nation\u2019s oldest Latino civil rights organizations, said that many of those targeted were Democratic leaders and election volunteers, and that some were older residents in their 70s and 80s. Gabriel Rosales, the director of the group\u2019s Texas chapter, said that officers conducting the raids took cellphones, computers and documents. He called the raids \u201calarming\u201d and said they were an effort to suppress Latino voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">At a news conference on Monday outside the attorney general\u2019s offices in San Antonio, members of the group, known as LULAC, said they were filing a civil-rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice. Roland Gutierrez, a state senator, said he was requesting a State Senate investigation into the raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYou don\u2019t go after our grandmothers,\u201d Domingo Garcia, a LULAC leader, told reporters.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;A Latino civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation into a series of raids conducted on Latino voting activists and political operatives as part of a sprawling voter fraud inquiry by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton. The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134702,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134701\/revisions\/134702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}