Factual Allegations & Background

Factual Allegations & Background

Wells Fargo is an American multinational banking and financial services holding company headquartered in San Francisco, California.  It is the fourth largest bank in the United States. According to Plaintiffs, Wells Fargo’s refusal to offer Plaintiff Mitzie Perez and other non-citizens, including DACA recipients, who are members of California LULAC an opportunity to contract for private loans because of its arbitrary citizenship requirements is a violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act and Unfair Competition Law.  USCIS has approved over 1.3 million initial and renewal requests for DACA, and there are thousands of people who do not meet Wells Fargo’s citizenship status requirements.