New York, NY…A Manhattan federal court ruled on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, that the owner of the Kum Gang San restaurants, Ji Sung Yoo, fraudulently transferred his property to his wife in order to avoid paying a wage theft judgment of $2.7 million to 11 Asian and Latino workers.
The court also ord...
New York, NY…The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is deeply concerned with the U.S. Census Bureau’s 11th-hour decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census form. The purpose of the census is to count all people in the United States, including immigrants and un...
AALDEF staff attorney Annie Wang will speak at our free DACA renewal clinic and know your rights immigration legal clinic on Sunday, February 25, 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm, at Brooklyn Law School. Co-sponsors include the Asian American Bar Association of New York, Asian American Federation, Asian Health a...
AALDEF is participating in two Know Your Rights events on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) on Saturday, February 3:
From 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm, AALDEF is provide free legal assistance at a DACA renewal immigration clinic at Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, 203-05 32n...
UPDATED 3.8.18: Download the latest Feb. 2018 AALDEF DACA guidance here.
On January 9, 2018, a federal district judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Following this order, on January 13, 2018, U...
Vivian Cheng-Khanna had an intellect refined at a top college and law school, but the easygoing manner of a friend who had all afternoon to hear what was on your mind. While practicing law in some of the most competitive arenas, Vivian always found time for family, friends, and community service. ...
According to a nonpartisan exit poll of 2,538 Asian American voters in the 2017 elections, Asian Americans strongly supported Democratic candidates in four states–Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York–with 3 out of 5 voters disapproving of Donald Trump’s performance as president. The mult...
AALDEF is among the 18 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) immigrant advocacy, labor, civil rights, community health, service provider, and undocumented youth groups calling for a new organizing coalition to secure swift passage of a clean DREAM Act.
On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administr...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will dispatch attorneys and volunteers to document voter problems and the availability of language assistance on Election Day, November 7th, in New York City and Boston for the Mayoral ...
AALDEF seeks volunteers to defend Asian American voting rights in the November 2017 elections in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia.
In past elections, Asian Americans have faced a series of barriers in exercising their right to vote, including segregated “Asian” voting lines. When...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), in partnership with the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ), the New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health (NYCAAMH), and the Chinese-American Family Al...
On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, 12 noon to 1:30 pm, AALDEF will conduct a DACA Renewal Training Webinar for pro bono lawyers, in conjunction with the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY).
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Sept. 5, 2017, the rescission and “winding down” of the ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) was appalled to hear Attorney General Jeff Sessions announce this morning that the Trump administration is ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protection for the roughly 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the U.S...
Asian American voters entitled to interpreters of their choice under Voting Rights Act
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision last week that affirmed the district court ruling that the Texas law, which requires interpreters...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) was appalled to learn that the President and two Republican senators intend to push for the enactment of the RAISE Act, which would drastically reduce the number of immigrant visas (green cards) available on an annual basis by 50%. The RAI...
On the fifth anniversary of the announcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in June 2012, DACA continues to improve and transform the lives of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and qualify for temporary protection from deportation and empl...
AALDEF will conduct the next three presentations on its new report, “The Asian American Vote 2016,” which includes information from our multilingual exit poll of 13,846 Asian American voters in the 2016 elections, the largest nonpartisan survey of its kind in the nation. Learn about which candidat...
During the 2016 Presidential Elections, 13,846 Asian American voters participated in the nation’s largest nonpartisan multilingual exit poll. AALDEF’s Asian American Exit Poll was conducted in 11 Asian languages and English in 55 cities across 14 states – NY, NJ, MA, PA, VA, MD, MI, GA, LA, FL, TX...
President Trump today signed an executive order establishing a commission to investigate tenuous charges of voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election. Despite Trump’s repeated assertions that millions of “illegals” voted in the 2016 elections, no credible evidence has been presented to support t...
Multilingual exit poll of 13,846 Asian American voters shows strong support for Democratic candidates in 2016 elections
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released a new report with detailed findings from its nonpartisan multilingual exit poll of 13,846 Asian Americ...
