Immigration and Immigrant Rights
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Calls Out Similarities of Border Crisis to Japanese American Incarceration
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Washington, DC – June 25, 2018 – In another dehumanizing and disturbing move from the Trump Administration, officials have been touring an Arkansas site near a former Japanese American incarceration camp as a potential facility to incarcerate some of the more than 2,300 children who were separated from their families at the border.
Any Politician That Supports the Goodlatte and Ryan-Trump Bills Endorses Trump’s Policy to Separate Children from Their Families At the Border
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It’s a moment of truth for House members this week when they vote on two anti-immigrant bills.
Goodlatte’s Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Family Bill Exposes How Out of Touch House Republicans Are with America
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Secretary DeVos is Wrong About Reporting Undocumented Students
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Washington, DC — May 24, 2018 — While testifying before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said that schools can decide whether to report undocumented students to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five Asian American civil rights organizations, releases the following statement:
Advancing Justice Condemns Termination of TPS for Honduras
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Washington, DC — Over the weekend, the Trump administration announced its decision to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for immigrants from Honduras in eighteen months.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five Asian American civil rights organizations, released the following statement:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Urges Congress to Intervene for Nepali TPS Holders
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Washington, D.C. — April 26, 2018 — Today, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will terminate temporary protected status (TPS) for Nepal in one year on June 24, 2019. At that time, approximately 9,000 TPS holders will lose their work authorization and be at risk of being swept up in ICE’s aggressive deportation raids.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, issues the following statement:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Stands With Impacted Communities As Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Muslim Ban Case, Trump v. Hawaii
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Washington, DC - Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Hawaii, which is challenging the third version of the Trump Administration's executive order known as the Muslim Ban. When President Trump first proposed the Muslim Ban as a centerpiece of his administration, people from around the country came together to oppose the racist, Islamophobic executive order. Since that time, the Muslim Ban has faced a series of legal challenges. Ultimately the Muslim Ban was allowed to take full effect while the Supreme Court prepares to make its final ruling.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Calls for Permanent Solution to Protect Immigrant Communities
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Washington, D.C. - Another federal judge has determined that the President’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is arbitrary and capricious. The court has given the administration 90 days to issue a more thorough and reasoned memo ending the program or it must begin to accept new applications.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, releases the following statement:
Advocacy Groups Demand ICE Records of Aggressive Enforcement Targeting Southeast Asian Americans
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