187: The Rise of the Latino Vote | Clip | Antonia Hernández: Leading with the Law

Antonia Hernández was the President and General Counsel at Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund when Proposition 187 came about in 1994. To litigate the issue, MALDEF partnered with the ACLU and with a private law firm. But the pressure was always on her organization, as the representative of the Latino community, the one group that was especially targeted by the initiative.