Immigration and Immigrant Rights
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC and Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs File Lawsuit on Behalf of OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates Over Unconstitutional Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship
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WASHINGTON, DC – Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Advancing Justice – AAJC) Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (WLC), and OCA -Asian Pacific American Advocates (OCA) announced today a new lawsuit challenging President Trump’s authority to unilaterally strip citizenship from babies born in the U.S. to parents who are here on temporary visas or are undocumented. The lawsuit was filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
On his first day in office, Defendant President Trump moved to unilaterally end birthright citizenship by edict, eviscerating the rights of children and more than a century of settled law. His Executive Order entitled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” (the “Order”) directs every department and agency of the United States to refuse to recognize as an American citizen any child born on American soil whose mother is “unlawfully present” or temporarily present and whose father who is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (hereinafter, “Targeted Children”).
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC Denounces Confirmation of Kristi Noem as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Saturday, January 25, the Senate confirmed South Dakota governor Kristi Noem to the position of Secretary of Homeland Security. Noem has supported policies that target immigrant communities, refugees and asylum-seekers, and separate families.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Bill Mandating Detention
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice denounces the passage of S.5, also known as the Laken Riley Act. This passage threatens immigrant communities and allows anti-immigrant state officials to dictate federal immigration policy and international relations. The bill requires individuals who are arrested for lower-level offenses and who lack immigration status to be detained without possibility of bond and without a judge’s assessment of public safety or flight risk.
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump issued more than a dozen Executive Orders (EOs) that seek to sow fear in immigrant communities. These orders seek to militarize our borders and immigration enforcement more broadly, massively expand the existing deportation and detention machinery, punish organizations that care for immigrants as well as local governments that prioritize protecting their residents, and misinterpret the U.S. Constitution and immigration laws.
Amidst President Trump’s Two-Day Assault of Executive Orders, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC Reiterates Community Support
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Immediately upon taking office on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders (“E.O.”) and proclamations, several of which threaten the immigration status, civil rights and human rights of Asian Americans and other communities. Additionally, the President rescinded a number of prior executive efforts to advance and protect equity, access to truth and ability to participate in civic engagement. Of the numerous rescissions and in a direct denial of our communities, President Trump rescinded E.O.
Letter on Hearing Titled “How Mass Deportations Will Separate American Families, Harm Our Armed Forces, and Devastate Our Economy”
President-elect Trump has promised to build massive detention camps, conduct sweeping raids, and forcibly remove beloved and
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC endorses reintroduction of Reuniting Families Act
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) introduced the Reuniting Families Act, legislation that would promote family unity in our country’s immigration system, reduce the family-based immigration backlogs, and update our laws to reflect how families immigrate to the United States.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Responds to the 2024 Election Outcome
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The nation’s largest network of AAPI civil rights organizations, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, jointly issued this statement today.