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 legal education at the University of Kansas School of Law, completing his law studies in 2002. He later completed a media law certification at the University of Kansas, an academic touch that complements his public-interest work.
Early in his career Rojas combined direct client work with organizing and policy work. In 2003 he worked 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 year at O’Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson and the Law Office of David Grummon. In 2006 he served as a law clerk at Garcia Solorio LC and the following year moved into nonprofit leadership as executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.
By 2010 Rojas had launched his own practice, the Law Office of Raymundo Eli Rojas. Records also 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 role that added courtroom and trial experience to his background in advocacy and nonprofit management.
His work has consistently involved immigration, labor and employment issues and civil liberties. Rojas has held leadership roles in multiple 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 active in the American Civil Liberties Union in both Texas and New Mexico and holds memberships in 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 in the Federal Bar Association’s labor and employment and immigration sections.
Beyond practice he has been involved with local civic and cultural groups, including a long-running role at the El Paso Chican@ History and Preservation Project and a past term on the board of Friends of the El Paso Public Library. Those roles reflect an interest in community institutions as well as litigation and client advocacy.
Rojas is licensed to practice in New Mexico and maintains offices in both New Mexico and Texas. His current practice handles matters in immigration, labor and employment, and civil liberties, alongside related litigation and advocacy work.
