Anti-Racial Profiling
On October 9th, 2023, Texas State Senator Lois Kolkhorst (R) introduced S.B. 51 which seeks to completely ban Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, and Russian citizens from purchasing agricultural land in the state. This comes only months after Sen. Kolkhorst introduced a similar bill, S.B. 147, which also sought to discriminate against individuals from these 4 countries and bar them from purchasing agricultural property in the state of Texas.
In 1804, Ohio was the first state to pass legislation permitting non-United States citizens to own land, paving the way for other states to do the same.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC Calls the Government Surveillance Reform Act Much-Needed Reform to Curb Warrantless Government Surveillance of Asian Americans
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Washington, D.C. — Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC (Advancing Justice – AAJC) applauds the introduction of new legislation to protect Americans’ rights against warrantless surveillance. This bipartisan legislation is led by Senators Ron Wyden and Mike Lee as well as Representatives Warren Davidson and Zoe Lofgren.
Leading Asian American Organizations Unite to Demand Congress End Mass Warrantless Spying of Americans
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A Coalition of 52 organizations led by Asian American Scholar Forum, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and Stop AAPI Hate calls for significant reforms to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
National Asian American Coalition Letter Led By Asian American Scholar Forum, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) & Stop AAPI Hate
To: All Members of the U.S. Congress
Date: September 14, 2023
Louisiana first passed its own version of an "alien land law" in 1921 which placed land ownership restrictions on those it deemed to be "ineligible to citizenship." This was modeled after California's version, which took effect in 1913.
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC Denounces Federal Judge's Failure to Block Discriminatory Florida Land Law
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Washington, D.C. — August 17, 2023 — Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC denounces failure to block a new Florida law that restricts people from China from owning property in the state.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC issues the following statement:
Florida was unfortunately the last state to repeal its “alien land law” which did not happen until 2018. The language existed in its state Constitution, and it took decades for local Asian American activists to finally repeal it. Just 5 years later, S.B.
This is not the first time Texas has considered a state “alien land law.” In fact, Texas has previously passed three versions of an alien land law in 1891, 1892, and 1921. The last version was formally repealed by the Texas state legislature in 1965. We view any discriminatory land law on non-US individuals to be legally problematic and likely unconstitutional, especially if the law in question is as vague and broad as S.B. 147.