Perales’s daughter, Nina Perales, is herself a highly-regarded civil rights attorney. Earlier this year she was named litigation director for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education ...

A new birth certificate law in Puerto Rico creates serious problems for more than 1 million U.S. mainland residents born on the island who now face unjust difficulties if their documents are ...

Perales was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Lehman College, the Thurgood Marshall Award from Seton Hall University Law School and the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hispanic National ...

SYRACUSE -- New York Secretary of State Cesar Perales said the immigration bill that passed the U.S. Senate Thursday is the change the state and country need to fully recover from the recession.

Following a hearing, an Administrative Law Judge sustained 287 of the alleged 535 violations and imposed a fine of $1,000 per offense for a total of $287,000.

Cesar Vargas became the first undocumented immigrant to obtain an attorney's license in New York. Now he's fighting for immigration reform.

Cesar A. Perales, president and general counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF (PRLDEF), was honored with the 2011 Haywood Burns Award from the New York State Bar Association during the State Bar's ...

The long journey began for Cesar Perales in the spring of 1969 with a phone call and a plea from a friend. Scores of students had just occupied several buildings on the City College campus. At the … ...

Cesar Perales, president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, recently filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Latino immigrants who want their U.S. citizen applications ...

New York Secretary of State Cesar A. Perales said the new rules, which take effect in 90 days, are designed to "put the brake on immigration scammers." ...