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Landmark Settlement Reached in Lending Discrimination Class-Action Cases Brought By DACA Recipients Against Wells Fargo

Jun 17, 2020/Press Release

Wells Fargo Bank will pay up to $19.6 million and change its lending policies as part of settling two class-action lawsuits brought by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients whose applications for a variety of consumer loans and credit cards were allegedly denied by the bank because they were not U.S. citizens or permanent …

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Dreamers Ask To Proceed As Class In Wells Fargo Bias Suit

Nov 4, 2019/News Items

A group of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients have asked a California federal court to let them move forward as a class with their claims that Wells Fargo’s lending policies discriminate against immigrants.  The DACA recipients — young immigrants without legal status who were brought to the U.S. as kids and who are protected from …

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Wells Fargo discriminated against Dreamer by denying auto loan, lawsuit claims

Jul 25, 2019/News Items

Eduardo Peña and his wife moved out of Chicago last year to start a family together.                          *                              *                        …

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Wells Fargo sued for denying loan to Dreamer

Jul 18, 2019/News Items

Wells Fargo’s legal woes have expanded to claims the bank wrongly denied an auto loan for a migrant working in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to a lawsuit filed in a California federal court Tuesday. Eduardo Peña, who was born in Mexico and is a resident of Illinois, alleges …

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