Stateline - In 37 states, a country other than Mexico is now the most common country of origin for newly arrived immigrants, according to a Stateline analysis of census data. The numbers reflect a steep decline in Mexican immigration since 2005…
NBC News - Angela Guanzon remembers learning about human trafficking growing up in the Philippines, but she never imagined that one day she would be a trafficking survivor. “All I heard about was human or sex trafficking–not labor trafficking…”
Hong Kong Economic Journal - It wasn’t anything we haven’t heard before. But in a year in which #OscarsSoWhite dominated headlines, awards host Chris Rock’s tone-deaf joke at the expense of Asian kids was a cheap shot.
Next City - It is the kind of cold that burns the skin. But on a Tuesday morning in January, it’s bright and warm in the new branch library in Chicago’s Chinatown. Out the slim vertical windows, subway trains rush by on elevated tracks. Looking north…
NBC News - Six new counties were added to a list of places required by federal law to provide voters with language assistance in Asian languages, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced last week…
Los Angeles Times - The night Donald Trump was elected president, JC Chang, 28, shed tears and called his mother, scared for the direction the country was going. When he learned of Trump’s call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen last week…
GMA News - A free legal clinic on immigration was recently held at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City in response to what the organizers called “climate of fear and uncertainty” caused by the recent election to the presidency of Donald Trump…
St. Paul Asian American Press - On Tuesday, Feb. 16, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will present its 2016 Justice in Action Awards to Eric H. Holder, Jr., partner at Covington & Burling LLP and former U.S. Attorney…
NBC News - One thing is clear from exit polls and a survey leading up to Election Day: A majority of Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters nationwide backed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for president…
Asia Times - Asian Americans voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump by a huge 79% to 17% margin in Tuesday’s US presidential election, according to a national exit poll conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense…
Reappropriate - Following the devastating defeat of Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton by Republican nominee – and now President-elect – Donald Trump, national media outlets are now racing to figure out where it all went wrong…
Los Angeles Times - Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Thursday will unveil its effort to organize Asian Americans in the San Gabriel Valley, an area with one of the densest concentrations of those voters in the state…
2015
NewsWorksWHYY - There are requirements at polling places, but help doesn’t reach everyone who needs it. Elections have been hectic for Cesar Liriano for most of the nine years he’s lived in the city of Lebanon…
Reporting Texas - When Saurabh Das heads to the polls this election season, he’ll be able to do more than vote. He can be an interpreter for any Bengali speaker who needs help reading the ballot, as long as he’s not that person’s boss or union leader…
KQED News - This November, Filipino-language voters will be able to use a bilingual English and Filipino ballot for the first time in San Francisco history. But only 5 percent of the city’s 24,100 Filipino-speaking residents are registered to vote…
NBC News - In posting a link to an article about Chinese President Xi Jinping, The Wall Street Journal tweeted, “A chink in his armor? Xi Jinping looks vulnerable for the first time,” late Sunday night. Within two hours, the tweet was deleted…
NY Daily News - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump lampooned Asians during a campaign rally in Iowa, mocking them with broken English.
“Negotiating with Japan, negotiating with China,” Trump said during a Tuesday speech in Dubuque before folding his hands over his middle. . .“They sa...
Cleveland.com - Trump did his stand-up routine the same day he took to Twitter to trash rival Jeb Bush for making a reference to Asians while discussing “anchor babies.” The term, used to describe the U.S.-born citizen children of undocumented immigrants…
FoxNews.com - The Hillary Clinton campaign has hired a former Planned Parenthood organizer to rally support from Asian Americans. The Clinton campaign announced on Tuesday that it hired Lisa Changadveja…
New York Law Journal - Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), often referred to as the “crown jewel” of the civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the 1960s. The VRA prohibits discrimination…
