Immigration and Immigrant Rights
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Latest Executive Order As Muslim Ban 2.0
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WASHINGTON, DC — Today, President Trump issued a new executive order which is essentially a “Muslim Ban 2.0” in that it reiterates key components of its prior ban on immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. The new order, issued less than a month after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit halted the original ban based on a preliminary finding that it violates the Constitution, continues to target immigrants and visitors from Muslim majority countries.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Responds to the President's Joint Address to Congress
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Washington, D.C. – March 1, 2017 – Last night, President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in which he professed to call for unity, only to do the opposite in his remarks to the nation regarding immigration and immigrants.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, responded to his speech with the following statement:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Apparent Hate Attack and Mourns the Killing of South Asian Immigrant
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On February 22, two Indian American immigrants were targeted and shot in a bar in Olathe, Kansas, and one of them was killed. A third man was shot trying to stop the shooter.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Calls Latest Administration’s Actions On Immigration Unconscionable
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WASHINGTON, DC — In response to the breaking news that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly unveiled new FAQs and policy memos aimed at detaining and deporting many more immigrants living in the U.S. regardless of their ties to communities, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, issues the following statement:
After years of declining numbers, hate crimes against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders are rising exponentially. A report from the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations found that crimes targeting Asian-Americans tripled in that county between 2014 and 2015. In addition, the FBI found that the number of hate crimes against Muslim communities rose dramatically between 2014 and 2015 (67 percent).
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Outraged By Recent Ice Raids
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice Outraged By Recent ICE Raids
WASHINGTON — In response to news this past week about surges in detentions and deportations by ICE and a rising fear and anxiety amongst immigrant communities, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, issues the following statement:
"On many occasions, President Obama has said that when he's among the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, he was among family. To many AAPIs, he is family - he grew up in Hawaii where his Asian American sister and her husband still live and where his family visits often," said Mee Moua, president and executive director of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Applauds Court of Appeals Ruling Refusing to Reinstate Travel Ban
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WASHINGTON – Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, reacts to the ruling on the travel ban executive order issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice stated the following:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Deeply Disappointed at Senate Confirmation of Sessions
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice Deeply Disappointed
at Senate Confirmation of Sessions
New U.S. Attorney General’s troubling record is a blow to Immigration and Civil Rights progress
WASHINGTON, DC — Attorney general nominee, Jeff Sessions, was confirmed through a floor vote in the Senate this evening.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Strongly Opposes Restrictionist Immigration Bill
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WASHINGTON — Today, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Senator David Perdue (R-GA) filed a bill called the RAISE Act that would upend the immigration system to further a white nationalist agenda and move the country in the wrong direction.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice issued the following statement in response to this harmful proposal: