Immigration and Immigrant Rights
Opposing this bill should not be a partisan matter. While adding trillions to our national debt, this bill will strip health care coverage for millions of families. It will plunge our communities into deeper food insecurity and deepen the poverty chasm for nearly 4.5 million children of immigrants, all to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations and unprecedented, unaccountable funds for mass deportation. Members of Congress should support legislation that keeps our communities safe and healthy, not increase hardship for everyday people just trying to survive.
Civil rights groups denounce cruelty, lawlessness of ICE deportation flight to war zone in violation of judge's order
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Last week, the Trump administration defied a judge's order and placed eight community members, including long-term residents of the U.S., on a deportation flight to South Sudan without due process. The community members, who were born in countries including Mexico, Cuba, and Vietnam, have no ties to South Sudan, a country facing a serious armed conflict and which has been given a level 4 "do not travel" warning by the US State Department due to the risk of kidnapping and violence. Meanwhile, the flight itself remains stranded in Djibouti.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Visa Revocations and Restrictions to Student Visa Applications
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice, a network of four independent Asian American civil rights organizations, condemns the Trump administration’s plan to escalate visa revocations for Chinese students and restrict future student visa applications based on overbroad and vague criteria that includes surveillance of social media posts and desire to study in specific fields. This targeted attack on Chinese students is xenophobic and harms the U.S. as a whole.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice: House Reconciliation Bill Cuts Vital Family Services to Fund Deportations and Abductions
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House reconciliation bill passed by a sliver. As written, the bill proposes to strip federal funding from key services and benefits to fund a massive increase in cruel immigration enforcement, as well as to extend tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich. The bill now moves to the Senate for consideration.
Ansari Introduces “Artemis” Act, Named for Christian Convert Seeking Asylum, to Protect Due Process for All
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) introduced the Artemis Act, legislation to protect due process by preventing individuals from facing expedited removal from the U.S. if they are nationals of or would be deported to countries designated by the State Department as engaging in severe violations of religious freedom.
Court Allows Trump’s Dismantling of Citizenship and Integration Grant Program to Continue as Case Moves Forward
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Greenbelt, MD - A coalition of civil rights and immigration service organizations today decried the denial of a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily halted the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful dismantling of a critical Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant funding program to help green card holders looking to become U.S. citizens. The disappointing ruling comes in Solutions In Hometown Connections et al v. Noem, which was filed in the U.S.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Afghan Immigrants
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Asian Americans Advancing Justice, a network of four independent Asian American civil rights organizations, strongly opposes the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 9,000 Afghan nationals, a move that will force individuals back into life-threatening conditions.
Trump’s birthright order gets frosty reception, but justices appear ready to limit nationwide blocks
“Your argument seems to turn our justice system — in my view at least — into a ‘catch me if you can’ kind of regime, from the standpoint of the executive, where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights,” Jackson said. “I don’t understand how that is remotely consistent with the rule of law.”
Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order but limit nationwide injunctions
Hannah Liu, 26, of Washington, holds up a sign in support of birthright citizenship, Thursday, May 15, 2025, outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. “This is enshrined in the Constitution. My parents are Chinese immigrants,” says Liu. “They came here on temporary visas so I derive my citizenship through birthright.”