May 10, 2011
San Francisco – Civil rights groups are applauding Mayor Ed Lee’s decision to immediately begin implementation of a city law, passed in November 2009, that restores due process for immigrant youth in San Francisco’s juvenile justice system and ensures that innocent youth are not torn from their families for deportation. However, at the same time, […]
April 13, 2011
NOTE: Originally published on Asian Pacific Americans for Progress on April 7, 2011. This article has been re-posted with the permission of the authors. By Karin Wang, Vice-President, Programs & Communications, Asian Pacific American Legal Center On March 28, 2011, the New York Times picked up a story that ran a few days earlier in the Pasadena […]
March 25, 2011
By May, ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education) Member In honor of National Coming Out Week: Undocumented and Unafraid we are featuring stories of API dreamers. The DREAM Act would provide undocumented students that arrived before the age of 16 in the US a pathway to legalization. I am undocumented. There, I wrote […]
March 24, 2011
By New, ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education) Member In honor of National Coming Out Week: Undocumented and Unafraid we are featuring stories of API dreamers. The DREAM Act would provide undocumented students that arrived before the age of 16 in the US a pathway to legalization. The fact that I'm an undocumented […]
March 23, 2011
By Nelson, ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education) Member In honor of National Coming Out Week: Undocumented and Unafraid we are featuring stories of API dreamers. The DREAM Act would provide undocumented students that arrived before the age of 16 in the US a pathway to legalization. Tuesday morning. I wake up to […]
March 21, 2011
By Catherine, ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education) Member In honor of National Coming Out Week: Undocumented and Unafraid we are featuring stories of API dreamers. The DREAM Act would provide undocumented students that arrived before the age of 16 in the US a pathway to legalization. It’s Coming Out Week. Unlike the […]
March 18, 2011
By Fiona, ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education) Member In honor of National Coming Out Week: Undocumented and Unafraid we are featuring stories of API dreamers. The DREAM Act would provide undocumented students that arrived before the age of 16 in the US a pathway to legalization. My name is Fiona and I […]
March 16, 2011
By Steve Li, ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education) Member In honor of National Coming Out Week: Undocumented and Unafraid we are featuring stories of API dreamers. The DREAM Act would provide undocumented students that arrived before the age of 16 in the US a pathway to legalization. It was a sunny morning, […]
February 2, 2011
NOTE: Originally published on New America Media on January 24, 2011. This article has been re-posted with the permission of the authors. By Eugene Lee and Deanna Kitamura, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center LOS ANGELES—California has started a new experiment that will affect who represents you in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. Until now, the state Legislature […]
January 19, 2011
NOTE: Originally published in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on January 15, 2011. This article has been re-posted with the permission of the author. By Assemblyman Mike Eng For many Asian Americans, and especially Chinese Americans, the current debate about birthright citizenship is a debate our community already knows. That is because the vast majority of Asian […]
November 30, 2010
NOTE: Originally published in the Washington Post on November 30, 2010. This article has be re-posted with the permission of the author. By Rajdeep Singh Washington Post political reporter Karen Tumulty wrote Monday about the growing use of the idea of "American exceptionalism" by political conservatives as a "battle cry from a new front in […]
November 9, 2010
NOTE: Originally published in the Daily Journal on November 9, 2010 By Connie Choi (APALC, left) and Angela Chan (ALC, right) Starting November 5th, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began negotiations with three local jurisdictions that have formally requested to opt out of a controversial federal program known as “Secure Communities” or “S-Comm.” These jurisdictions […]
