Asian Americans Advancing Justice Pledges Continued Support for Affirmative Action Groups File Second Amicus Brief on Behalf of AAPI Students SAN FRANCISCO – Today, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) alongside the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Boston-based Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, and pro bono counsel Arnold […]

Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus Applauds Governor Brown’s Decision to Grant 36 Pardons and 31 Commutations Calls for Passage of AB 2845 to Build on Legacy Sacramento, CA – Today, Governor Jerry Brown granted pardons to 36 individuals, a number of whom currently face the threat of deportation as a result of their state […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Groups Challenge the Waiver Component of Trump Administration’s Muslim Travel Ban Seattle, Wash. — In response to the June 26 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, Council on American-Islamic Relations – California, Iranian American Bar Association, Lane Powell […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 30, 2018 CONTACT Dawn Le, 202-549-6798, dawn@generate.group Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Over Wall, Repeats His Call to End Family Reunification Visas More Misleading Remarks about Family-Based Immigration and #FalseFacts on His ‘Chain Migration’ At today’s press conference with the Italian Prime Minister, Donald Trump reiterated his weekend tweets threatening to shutdown […]

Asian Americans Advancing Justice Files Brief In Support of Race-Conscious Admissions at Harvard Asian Americans Refuse to be a Wedge in Affirmative Action Debate   LOS ANGELES, CA — Today, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) alongside the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Boston-based Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic […]

Contact: Christina So, christinaso@advancingjustice-alc.org, 415-848-7728   Former Workers Announce Resolution of Legal Claims Against La Taqueria San Francisco, CA – Former workers at La Taqueria, the famous, award-winning restaurant in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, announced the final conclusion of legal claims that have led to payment of approximately $600,000 in overtime, sick […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 29, 2018 CONTACT Dawn Le, 202-549-6798, dawn@generate.org   New #ValueOurFamilies Coalition Unites to Defend Family Immigration and Protect Family Unity Group Expands to Fend Off Against Trump’s Agenda, Would Slash Legal Immigration by 50% and Block Millions of Families from Reuniting As June wraps up and Immigrant Heritage Month comes […]

Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Supreme Court Decision on Muslim Ban Washington, D.C. – Today the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Trump Administration’s third iteration of the Muslim Ban in a 5-4 decision. Rather than reinforcing the notion that America welcomes people regardless of where they are born, what they look like, […]

  Asian Americans Advancing Justice Calls Out Similarities of Border Crisis to Japanese American Incarceration   SAN FRANCISCO – In another dehumanizing and disturbing move from the Trump Administration, officials have been touring an Arkansas site near a former Japanese American incarceration camp as a potential facility to incarcerate some of the more than 2,300 children […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                   Wednesday, June 20, 2018  CONTACT                                       Dawn Le, 202-549-6798, dawn@generate.group   Trump’s Executive Order STILL Jails Children and Their Parents […]