Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC signs on to a coalition letter with 250 signatories urging congress to hold a confirmation vote for Gigi Sohn for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) before Congress adjourns.

We, the undersigned, strongly support the creation of the broadband consumer label, as mandated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and endorsed in a presidential executive order, and we call upon the Commission to ensure the label is clear and easily accessible.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC submits Letter to the Editor to the New York Times in response to the opinion piece by John McWhorter about affirmative action. 

The Leadership Conference’s recent report, “Information Nation: The Need for Improved Federal Civil Rights Data Collection,” highlights the importance of data collection in tackling the problems created by structural racism, inequality, and other injustices. Without complete, accurate, and disaggregated data, it is impossible to develop a full understanding of how the communities we represent are faring. As the report concludes, while better data collection will not solve the challenges created by systemic racism and historic levels of inequality, it is a necessary first step.

Today, 113 organizations wrote a letter to Secretary Mayorkas and his counterparts in the administration to review country conditions in Ethiopia and designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Special Student Relief (SSR) for those unable to safely return. The Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure Administrative Advocacy Coalition (TPS-DED AAC), along with its partners, called for an immediate 18 month designation in response to the escalating humanitarian crisis and violence unfolding in the country.

The undersigned grassroots advocates, civil rights, consumer rights, and faith-based organizations write urging Congress to restore the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) authority to prevent incarcerated people and their families and loved ones from paying predatory prices to stay connected by rapidly passing H.R. 2489, the Martha Wright Prison Phone Justice Act, and S. 1541, the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act.

The undersigned 48 civil rights, privacy, and consumer organizations urge you to expeditiously move H.R. 8152, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), to a vote by the full House of Representatives.

On behalf of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC; OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates; and the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA), we write in response to the Request for Comment regarding the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) adopting a rulemaking to establish a new content vendor diversity report and endorse the comments submitted by the National Urban League.

Under the leadership of African immigrant and Black-led community organizations, the undersigned 109 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) for Mali for an initial 18-months.

In light of the Supreme Court’s rights-stripping decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we, the undersigned organizations, write to urge you to immediately issue clear guidance that DHS shall not use any abortion care-related arrest or conviction as a basis for any immigration enforcement action, nor shall the agency consider it a barrier to any form of immigration relief.