Immigration and Immigrant Rights
Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Against DHS in Public Charge Case
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Washington, D.C. – A federal judge halted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing its controversial “public charge” rule, a policy change that advocacy groups assert would have disproportionately blocked immigrants of color from obtaining permanent resident status and inhibited immigrant workers and foreign students from extending or changing their visa status.
Statement to the House Judiciary's Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship on "The Expansion and Troubling Use of ICE Detention"
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC submits this testimony for the record for the public hearing entitled, “The Expansion and Troubling Use of ICE Detention” held on September 26, 2019 by the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship in Washington, D.C.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliation submitted a statement on the Muslim Ban for the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Advancing Justice Affiliates Celebrate Citizenship Day And Encourage Immigrants To Naturalize In Time To Vote In 2020 Election
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Washington, DC - In celebration of National Citizenship Day on September 17, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) affiliates throughout the U.S. hosted citizenship clinics to promote the many benefits of citizenship, including a critical benefit that has caused many long-time green card holders to choose to naturalize: the upcoming presidential election.
Amicus Brief Opposing DHS Public Charge Rule in State of California v. Department of Homeland Security Case
Memorandum of Law of Amici Curiae Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Women’s Law Center And 58 Other Amici In Support Of Plaintiffs’ Motion For Preliminary Injunction
Amicus Brief Opposing DHS Public Charge Rule - State of New York v. Department of Homeland Security
The most recent attempt by the Trump Administration to exclude immigrants of color, this time by modifying the current standards for a “public charge,” viewed in light of the Administration’s anti-immigrant statements and combined with the disproportionate impact of this new regulation on immigrants of color, establishes a discriminatory intent violative of the Equal Protection Clause.
Amicus Brief Opposing DHS Public Charge Rule - Make the Road New York v. Cuccinelli
The most recent attempt by the Trump Administration to exclude immigrants of color, this time by modifying the current standards for a “public charge,” viewed in light of the Administration’s anti-immigrant statements and combined with the disproportionate impact of this new regulation on immigrants of color, establishes a discriminatory intent violative of the Equal Protection Clause.
Amicus Brief Opposing DHS Public Charge Rule in La Clínica de la Raza v. Trump Case
Memorandum of Law of Amici Curiae Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Women’s Law Center And 60 Other Amici In Support Of Plaintiffs’ Motion For Preliminary Injunction
Advancing Justice | AAJC, AALDEF, and NWLC File Amicus Briefs Opposing DHS Public Charge Rule
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Washington, D.C. — Today, Advancing Justice | AAJC (Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC), Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), along with pro bono counsel Crowell Moring, filed amicus briefs in public charge cases, La Clínica de la Raza v.
Advancing Justice | AAJC Welcomes Announces New NAPABA Law Foundation Community Law Fellow Gisela Perez Kusakawa
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WASHINGTON— Advancing Justice | AAJC (Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC) welcomes today a new National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation (NLF) Community Law Fellow, Gisela Perez Kusakawa.