El Paso, Texas (Border report) – Hispanics made up almost half of the population growth in Texas in the decade by 2020, and 2 out of 5 nationals identified as Hispanic or Latin American, according to the US people.
In the five years that followed the number of Hispanics that Texas represented in the US House of Representatives followed, only seven to eight and the redistribution of the congress in the middle of the decades threatened to water down their political representation, say activists.
For this reason, two of the country’s most powerful Latino organizations will be gathered in a federal court in El Paso this week, in which the plaintiffs from the Texas legislation, which they say, are discriminatory.
“What we speak on the eighth floor (of the Federal Court) is the wrong application of the law and unconstitutional,” said Gloria Leal, National Deputy League of United Latin American Citizens (Lulac). “We believe that the legislator proves the racist intention to deliberately water the coalition district when drawing these cards.”
The Mexican -American right -back and educational fund (Maldef) is rejected this week in El Paso against Lulac. Both non-profit organizations say that they are apolitical, but have rejected the policy of administration of Trump in relation to immigration, educational and health financing through legal disputes or public statements.
The plaintiffs, including Lulac, claim that the cards are to dilute the minority power and are illegal.
The state of Texas denies any discriminatory or racially motivated intention behind the cards.
The result of the challenge could determine whether President Trump continues to have a republican majority in the house and the rights of immigrants as well as the intestinal training and the financing of the healthcare system will continue to undermine. Activists claim that Trump had forced the GOP leaders of Texas to draw recent cards because he fears that the GOP lost the house in the 2026 elections.
According to Leal, the cards threaten the minority contracts in four districts in the Houston area and one in North Texas. Fort Bliss also decreased the first cards from the 16th Congress district of El Paso and put them in the 23rd congress district, whose representative lives in San Antonio.
Ray Mancera, Vice President of Lulac National, said the last card leaves the army in the 16th congress district. When the three-judge committee hears the case in El Paso Green Light on the map of the legislator, it expects a “domino effect” with regard to the loss of political tension, financing and services for minority communities.
The certificate in this case started this week and will continue at least next week. The judges of the committee are the US district judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump representative from Galveston; US district judge David Guaderrama, an Obama representative; and US Circuit Richter on 5th Court of Appeal Jerry E. Smith.
Leal said that the plaintiffs were confident that the judges will illegally explain the cards, but are willing to contest a negative result up to the US Supreme Court.
Some chosen officials in El Paso said that this is a wake -up call for minorities regardless of the result to exercise their right to vote and Trump -GerryMandering.
“It is a shame that this legal dispute here in El Paso, here in Texas, takes place here.” This is a critical time in our country. I would like to ensure that everyone out there is urgency to register, to ensure that they coordinate in all elections. “
