About Raymundo Eli
Raymundo Eli Rojas earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2001, studying anthropology and linguistics alongside legal reasoning. He continued his law school training on the University of Kansas School of Law, finishing his regulation research in 2002. He later completed a media regulation certification on the University of Kansas, an academic contact that enhances his public-interest work.
Early in his profession Rojas combined direct client work with organizing and coverage work. In 2003 he labored on farmworker outreach and as a law clerk for Colorado Legal Aid’s Farmworker Project. He spent 2004 in Kansas City helping to found the Worker Justice Project and held summer and clerk positions that yr at O’Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson and the Law Office of David Grummon. In 2006 he served as a regulation clerk at Garcia Solorio LC and the subsequent year moved into nonprofit leadership as executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.
By 2010 Rojas had released his personal practice, the Law Office of Raymundo Eli Rojas. Records additionally list him as owner and owner/lawyer in subsequent years, indicating an ongoing private-practice presence. In 2013 he served as a senior trial lawyer for the Las Cruces District, a position that added court and trial experience to his background in advocacy and nonprofit management.
His work has consistently concerned immigration, labor and employment problems and civil liberties. Rojas has held management roles in more than one organizations tied to those areas. He served as president of the National Lawyers Guild’s El Paso chapter and later of the Immigrant Defense Bar of El Paso. He has been lively in the American Civil Liberties Union in each Texas and New Mexico and holds memberships within the National Employment Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the National Lawyers Guild, the Mexican American Bar Association in El Paso and the National Immigration Project. He has also participated within the Federal Bar Association’s labor and employment and immigration sections.
Beyond practice he has been concerned with local civic and cultural teams, including a long-running position at the El Paso Chican@ History and Preservation Project and a beyond time period at the board of Friends of the El Paso Public Library. Those roles mirror a curiosity in network establishments as well as litigation and client advocacy.
Rojas is licensed to practice in New Mexico and maintains offices in each New Mexico and Texas. His current practice handles things in immigration, labor and employment, and civil freedoms, alongside related legal proceedings and advocacy work.
