Anti-Racial Profiling
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Submits Comment to the National Institutes of Health on the Racial Profiling of Asian Americans and Asian Immigrants
Asian Americans Advancing Justice submitted a comment to NIH raising concerns about the racial profiling of Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and scholars, particularly those of Chinese descent, and urging the agency to take action in addressing NIH’s role in these efforts. Over 220 community organizations, civil rights groups, science associations, academics, and concerned citizens signed on to the comment.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC Delivers Petition of Nearly 30,000 Signatures Urging President Biden to End the “China Initiative”
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Advancing Justice | AAJC's Petition to President Biden to End the “China Initiative” and Combat Racial Profiling
Advancing Justice | AAJC delivered a petition to President Biden with nearly 30,000 signatures from impacted persons, concerned citizens, and community members urging the administration to put an immediate end to the “China Initiative” and take action to combat the racial profiling and targeting of Asian Americans and Asian immigrants by federal agencies, particularly the Department of Justice (DOJ), the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Advocacy Groups, Community Organizations and Science Associations Urge President-elect Joe Biden to End Justice Department’s “China Initiative”
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a group of community organizations, advocacy groups, science associations, and individuals sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden urging the incoming administration to end the Justice Department’s “China Initiative” and take further steps to combat the pervasive racial bias and targeting of Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and students by the federal government. Among the signatories are people who have been directly impacted by the government’s unjust prosecutions of Asian Americans.
A group of community organizations, advocacy groups, science associations, and individuals sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden urging the incoming administration to end the Justice Department’s “China Initiative” and take further steps to combat the pervasive racial bias and targeting of Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers, and students by the federal government.
The Anti-Racial Profiling Project offers resources and legal referrals for those impacted by the U.S. government’s increased efforts to target and profile Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists and researchers, particularly those of Chinese descent.
The Know Your Rights Fact Sheet provides key information for scientists, scholars and researchers contacted by law enforcement.
Advancing Justice | AAJC Launches Project to Combat Increased Racial Profiling and Criminalization of Asian Americans and Asian Immigrants
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) announces the launch of its Anti-Racial Profiling Project. The project offers resources and legal referrals for those impacted by the U.S. government’s increased efforts to target and profile Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists, researchers and scholars, particularly those of Chinese descent.
The Anti-Racial Profiling Project offers resources and legal referrals for those impacted by the U.S. government’s increased efforts to target and profile Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists and researchers, particularly those of Chinese descent.
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Since the 19th and 20th centuries, Asian Americans have been unfairly targeted and racially profiled. From the incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II, to the murder of Vincent Chin in 1982, as well as the scape-goating of Muslim Americans in a post-9/11 environment, Asian Americans are too often considered to be “perpetual foreigners.”
Advancing Justice | AAJC Calls for Transparency After U.S. State Department Revokes Visas of Chinese Nationals
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of State revoked more than 1,000 visas of Chinese students and researchers since June 1, 2020, claiming they had ties to the Chinese military. The Trump Administration has accused China of using graduate students to steal intellectual property and technology from the U.S.
John C. Yang, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC president and executive director, issues the following statement in response: