On November 29, 2021, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC and Asian Americans Advancing Justice - LA submitted a comment in response to Department of Homeland Security’s proposed rulemaking on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. While we express support to commit DACA into regulation, we oppose the decoupling of work permits from deportation protections and urge the expansion of eligibility criteria, among other recommendations. DACA has provided opportunities and immeasurable relief to tens of thousands of Asian American community members.

Advancing Justice – AAJC strongly supports the nominations of Jessica Rosenworcel and Gigi B. Sohn to serve as chair and commissioner, respectively, of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and joins with The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights coalition of more than 230 national organizations to urge their swift confirmation.

At a time when access to reliable, diverse news and information, as well as affordable broadband and communications, is paramount, a fully staffed Federal Communications Commission is top priority for the nation. Ms. Rosenworcel and Ms. Sohn are exemplary nominees for Chairwoman and Commissioner of the FCC, and it is critical that they are confirmed as soon as possible to restore the FCC to its full capacity. The confirmation of Ms. Rosenworcel and Ms.

The undersigned call upon the members of the Virginia Redistricting Commission (“Commission”) to end English-only community engagement practices and actions that impair the equal opportunities of limited-English proficient (LEP) and disabled Virginians from participating in the redistricting process. As the Commission engages in a critical phase of its work, nearing the end of the redistricting process, we strongly urge it to quickly improve the ability of LEP and disabled Virginians and communities to understand and comment on the work of the Commission.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) submitted a comment in response to the request for input on the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-33) implementation guidance by Director Eric Lander on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). We provided implementation guidance recommendations and expressed our concerns about the mass profiling and discriminatory investigations and prosecutions of Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and scholars, particularly of Chinese descent.

We urge Speaker Pelosi and Leaders Schumer, McConnell and McCarthy to swiftly pass the Expanding Broadcast Ownership Opportunities Act introduced by Reps. G.K. Butterfield and Steven Horsford and the Broadcast Varied Ownership Incentives for Community Expanded Service Act (Broadcast VOICES Act) introduced by Sens. Gary Peters and Robert Menendez. Supporting these pieces of legislation would eliminate barriers and create new opportunities for women, people of color and socially disadvantaged individuals to own local TV and radio stations.

As the COVID-19 health crisis continues to expose the depth of our country’s digital divide and the essential role that broadband access plays in sustaining critical aspects of our everyday lives-- it has also revealed how the continued lack of broadband and digital skills education have resulted in higher rates of poverty, underemployment, and limited vaccine distribution for multicultural communities nationwide.

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 the community’s access to the ballot. It is our nation’s most successful and consequential civil rights law; Advancing Justice – AAJC has worked to reauthorize, restore and enforce the VRA throughout the organization’s history as it has protected and advanced the voting rights of Asian Americans across the country.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (together, the “ACLU”) and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (“Advancing Justice | AAJC”) appeals the decision of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to administratively close the Freedom of Information Act request for records pertaining to the government’s efforts to scrutinize, investigate, prosecute, and take other measures against U.S.-based scientists and researchers believed to have connections to China.