Automated decision-making pratices can be highly invasive and discriminatory towards
communities of color, including Asian Americans. Online companies’ mass collection of
personal data is used to target consumers with advertisements, content, and recommendations
based on their perceived interests and demographics. This process may introduce bias into the
decision making process, when it shows different individuals different options for housing,
employment, and credit opportunities or reproduces historical pattenrs of bias, it result in illegal
discrimination.

On behalf of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC; thank you for the opportunity to
submit comments regarding the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NITA) request for comments on Privacy, Equity, and Civil Rights.

The undersigned organizations—a coalition of Asian American organizations and community groups—submit this comment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) in response to the proposed rule on the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways, published on February 23, 2023. As a majority immigrant community with deep roots to U.S.

The undersigned 93 civil, human, and immigrant rights groups write to express deep concern with the announcement, and confirmation in the notice of proposed rulemaking, that the Biden administration plans to enhance the use of expedited removal, and to reiterate our opposition to the punitive policies the administration is considering implementing along the border after Title 42 exclusions end. We urge the administration to protect, not undermine, the right to due process and to not build even more barriers to accessing the asylum system.

Nigeria is experiencing ongoing armed conflict and other extraordinary and temporary conditions that make the safe return of Nigerians from the United States impossible. The undersigned 128 civil rights, immigrant rights, human rights, educational, and grassroots organizations write to urge Secretary Mayorkas to review country conditions and designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), and Special Student Relief (SSR) for Nigeria.

Under the leadership of Congolese community leaders, the undersigned 115 civil rights, immigrant rights, human rights, faith, educational and grassroots organizations write to urge Secretary Mayorkas to review country conditions and designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Special Student Relief (SSR) for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Ongoing armed conflict and an escalating humanitarian crisis have garnered the world’s attention as reports of brutal violence grow each day.

Immigrants' rights, civil rights and civil liberties, and community-based organizations are committed to protecting the rights of all people, including Muslim, African, Arab, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities. We urge President Biden to provide relief to all who have been impacted by Trump's Muslim and African Bans which were rescinded on January 20, 2021. Following the United States District Court, Northern District of California, Aug. 1, 2022 order in the Pars Equality Center et al. v.

Observed by over a billion people around the world including many from our Asian American and Asian diaspora community —

Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese Americans — Lunar New Year is a time for reunions with families and loved ones to celebrate new beginnings. 

The undersigned 292 civil, human rights, and immigrant rights groups write to express our tremendous alarm and condemnation of your administration’s recent announcement of your plan to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to resurrect Trump-era asylum bans. This announcement marks a full-throated embrace of policies initiated by the prior administration, which by your own description “contravened our values and caused needless human suffering.” We call on you not to break your campaign promise to end restrictions on asylum seekers traveling through other countries.

We, the undersigned organizations serving and advocating for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, write to urge you to implement policies to urgently alleviate the processing backlog for TPS applicants. Any delay in adjudication eats into an already short grant period, leaving applicants at risk of deportation and without permission to work, even while qualifying for those benefits.