Immigration and Immigrant Rights
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC Urges Senate to Reject Anti-Immigrant Amendments to the Inflation Reduction Act
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Advancing Justice | AAJC Joins 90 Local, State, and National Organizations in Signing Letter to Senate Appropriators
Advancing Justice | AAJC joins the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), and 88 local, state, and national organizations, in respectfully requesting that they continue to support naturalization by providing much needed funding to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the USCIS Citizenship and Integration Grant program.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC Commends the Recent Senate Release of Appropriations Bills
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WASHINGTON, DC — Senate Democrats released 12 appropriations bills on Thursday morning. The package includes $1.67 trillion in discretionary spending for fiscal year 2023. The Homeland Security appropriations bill includes robust changes to the immigration system and improvements to immigration enforcement practices.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC issues the following statement:
The Defund Hate Coalition sends letter to congressional appropriators demanding they reject DHS' request to move funds to ICE for more immigration detention and enforcement efforts
Dear Chairwoman Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member Fleischmann, Chairman Murphy, and Ranking Member Moore Capito,
We are right here with you. That is the promise that Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC has kept with the Asian American community for over thirty years now. Three decades ago, we were founded on the need for our community to have a voice at the national level in all branches and offices of our federal government.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote), and AAPI Data released their bi-annual report measuring Asian American sentiment and attitudes on the issues top of mind in the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections. The survey revealed many insights into one of the fastest-growing racial groups in the United States, including their voting plans for House and Senate races in 2022, and various issue priorities such as education, healthcare, gun control, environment, and the state of the economy.
Asian Americans Polled on the Economy, Gun Control, Education, Vote Choice and More in the 2022 Asian American Voter Survey
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WASHINGTON DC – Today, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote), and AAPI Data released their bi-annual report measuring Asian American sentiment and attitudes on the issues top of mind in the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections.
Advancing Justice - AAJC Joins Over 200 Organizations Urging House Leadership To Reject Anti-Asylum Provision On Appropriations Bills
Over 200 organizations expressed their concern regarding the amendments included in the Fiscal Year 2023 House spending bills for the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services that would legislatively codify and indefinitely prolong the use of the Title 42 policy, which has been used to block and expel asylum seekers and migrants seeking safe haven in the United States. The letter urges House leadership to ensure that these amendments are not included in any legislation that receives a vote on the House floor.
Advancing Justice - AAJC Joins Over 100 Organizations in Calling for Extension and Redesignation of TPS for Syria
On July 12, the Temporary Protected Status Deferred Enforced Departure Administrative Advocacy Coalition (TPS-DED AAC) and 112 organizations wrote to the administration to urge that Secretary Mayorkas extend and redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syria for 18 months. Organizations have additionally requested fee waivers due to slow processing times for Syrian TPS applications and dedicated funding to address the backlog issues.