Advancing Justice — AAJC recognizes the importance of the "Discrimination and the Civil Rights of the Muslim Arab and South Asian American Communities" hearing as the first Congressional hearing to examine how post 9/11 national security policies impacted and criminalized Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities. We write to express our concerns of the racial profiling and discriminatory targeting of the AMEMSA and Asian American communities.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice — AAJC (Advancing Justice — AAJC) submitted this testimony for the public hearing on HS 922 (“Asian American History Curriculum Requirement”) held on February 25, 2022 by the Ways and Means Committee of the Maryland House in Annapolis, MD. The testimony is in support of HB 922, which seeks to include Asian American history into the history curriculum taught in schools across Maryland.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice — AAJC (Advancing Justice — AAJC) submitted this testimony for the public hearing on SB 462 (“Expanded American History”) held on February 16, 2022 by the Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee of the Maryland Senate in Annapolis, MD. The testimony is in support of SB 462, which seeks to expand the history curriculum taught in schools across Maryland to include the histories of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Black Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and women.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) has been vital to the prevention of actual and threatened discrimination aimed at Asian Americans in national and local elections, and for increasing their access to the ballot.

This testimony outlines the need to restore section 5 of the VRA to protect Asian American voters and how the Shelby County v. Holder decision in 2013 invalidated the key enforcement provision and made voting discrimination harder to stop. 

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Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Chicago, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles, together submit this statement for the record to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for its hearing entitled “Constitutional and Common Sense Steps to Reduce Gun Violence” on March 23, 2021. 

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC submitted this testimony for the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties hearing on “The Need to Enhance the Voting Rights Act: Practice-Based Coverage." The testimony details the history of discrimination against Asian Americans, demographics of the Asian American community, the ongoing discrimination Asian Americans face in the Post-Shelby County world, and the need to restore and strengthen the VRA through modernizing how to determine coverage for Section 5 preclearance, including the importanc

On behalf of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, and the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, we submit this written statement ahead of the Committee’s hearing to urge Congress to do more to ensure families and communities continue to have access to an essential service beyond the pandemic.

On April 28, President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, John C. Yang, testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary's subcommittee on immigration and citizenship. The U.S. has not updated the family-based immigration system nor increased the annual number allocation of immigrant visas in over 30 years (since 1990) despite that fact that the U.S. population has increased and is aging.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) submits this written testimony to the U.S. House of Representative Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties for its hearing entitled "Discrimination and Violence Against Asian Americans" on March 18, 2021.   

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) submits this written testimony to the House of Representative’s Committee on Oversight and Reform in connection with its January 9, 2020 hearing regarding preparations for the 2020 Decennial Census, including the Census Bureau’s efforts to reach hard-to-count communities and other issues.