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Raymundo Rojas
Ray Rojas Law El Paso, Texas / Las Cruces, NM
Rojas received his Bachelor of Art degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and his law degree from the University of Kansas in 2005. He is the founder of the Kansas City Worker Justice Project, which works with low-income worker in Kansas City.
He worked with Colorado Legal Services in their Farmworker Project; with the union-side labor law firm of O'Donnell, Schwartz, and Anderson in Washington, D.C.; and for attorneys David Grummon, Alejandro Solorio, and Ted Garcia in the Kansas City area.
Rojas formally was Executive Director at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, which represents battered immigrant women, unaccompanied immigrant children, and people fleeing persecution in their home country. Rojas is president of the El Paso National Lawyers Guild chapter and the El Paso Immigrant Defense Bar.
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Other memberships by Mr. Rojas include the National Employment Lawyers Association, the National Immigration Project, the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Federal Bar Association.
In 2020, he was elected to the executive board of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and Co-Vice Presidnet of the NLG's Texoma Region. The NLG is the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association and was the first one in the US to be racially integrated.
A professor at the University of Texas at El Paso for over eight years, Rojas, in 2012, also was chaired the organizing committee for the 30th Commemoration of the Raza Unida Party Convention (1972).
Formally, a senior prosecutor in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Rojas is experience in the criminal courts with many jury trails in felony and misdemeanor court. Mr. Rojas, after going into solo practice, was so respected by his peers, he was asked to become a contract attorney for the Law Office of the New Mexico Public Defender..
Rojas co-leads the El Paso Chicano(a) History Project and Raza Organize!, a leadership and organizing institute in El Paso, Texas. .
Rojas has been at the forefront of advocating for transparency in government helping to lead the fight against the demolition of El Paso's City Hall to build a baseball stadium and its related cover up by the El Paso City Council.
He protected the Constitutional rights of people who solicit on the streets when he assisted in a lawsuit in Federal Court against the City of El Paso which sought to restrict soliciting by El Paso's poor.
Rojas enjoys running, yoga, tai chi, craft beer, beer history, J.R.R. Tolkein, Chicano Literature, Christmas carols, and weightlifting. He follows the jazz, classical, blues, and heavy metal music scenes and is frequently active in local politics fighting for the rights of those oppressed.
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