[4] In 1978, attorney James C. Harrington created Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido, Inc. (OLPU) as a grassroots foundation in South Texas.
In February 2016, Mimi Marziani, a nationally recognized expert in voting rights and democratic reform, was announced as the group's second Executive Director.
[citation needed] Today, TCRP's main office is located at the Michael Tigar Human Rights Center in Austin, Texas.
Beyond Borders strives to work with migrant workers, immigrant families, and lawyers within the communities to create a "better Texas where all people are treated with dignity and respect.
In past years, TCRP has sued city buildings, schools, retail stores, restaurants, and hotels, among other businesses, to enforce ADA compliance.
[22] TCRP helps farm laborers and other low-income workers rectify injustice in the workplace and improve working conditions.
TCRP's efforts have addressed wage claims, sexual harassment by crew leaders and managers of housing projects, field sanitation, and protecting the right to organize to improve labor conditions and life in the colonias.
[23] To combat predatory financial practices, TCRP also conducts community education and litigation on behalf of low-income Hispanic families cheated on fraudulent land-purchase schemes and exorbitant water district fees in colonias, unincorporated low-income communities along the Texas-Mexico border that often lack basic infrastructure such as potable water, access to electricity, and paved roads.
[28] TCRP also brought a case against the Otero County Sheriff's Department, which resulted in sweeping reform and increased training within the police force, after officials illegally searched homes, harassed and interrogated residents, and racially profiled and stopped citizens to target undocumented immigrants.
[29] TCRP also represented a magazine publisher and filed suit against a jail that had denied inmates access to the publication Prison Legal News.
[33] TCRP sued the City of Round Rock in 2006, after hundreds of students were arrested and charged with truancy for leaving their classes to protest anti-immigrant sentiment and legislation.
The suit was filed on behalf of 98 students whom TCRP represented, claiming that their First Amendment rights had been violated, and was eventually won.
The State was also selling these baby blood samples to pharmaceutical companies and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and bartering with it for medical supplies.