Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released a new report evaluating the Census Bureau’s programs and outreach to Asian Americans in the 2010 Census and providing recommendations to improve census operations for 2020. A copy of the report can be downloaded here.
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The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), with pro bono co-counsel Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, has intervened in Georgia v. Holder, a lawsuit to approve the State of Georgia’s new voter verification procedures. The matter is pending in federal court in Washington, DC.
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Save the date: On Thursday, August 12, the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey (APALA/NJ) sponsors its 5th annual Golf Classic and Dinner at the Wild Turkey Golf Club, Hamburg, NJ 07419. A portion of the proceeds will support AALDEF’s New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project, whi...
Equal Justice Works Fellow Aparna Garg’s letter to the editor was published in response to a Time magazine column by Joel Stein, “My Own Private India,” (July 5), https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1999416,00.html
As an attorney for South Asian immigrant workers in New Jersey, I am o...
New York, NY … The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has submitted a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice, urging it to commence an investigation of the 2009 New York City Council election in District 19 and to appoint federal observers to deter future discriminatory co...
By Krissah Thompson, Washington Post Staff Writer
Five years ago, a group of Indian Americans who worked as staffers on Capitol Hill started up a club. They called themselves the “Desi Power Hour,” and met to share their experiences and help each other get a leg up in Washington. Small in number an...
Commentary by Khin Mai Aung
The much-publicized Arizona legislation known as SB 1070, a criminal statute allowing local law enforcement to demand proof of immigration status based on “reasonable suspicion,” is disturbing and xenophobic. It is a particularly heavy-handed development in a state where...
On Wednesday, May 26 in Fairfax, Virginia and Washington, DC, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), joined by Census Director Robert Groves and several Asian American community leaders, hosted two press conferences to bring awareness to the Census Bureau’s Non-Response Follow...
On the afternoon of May 3, a bright, orange door emerged in front of the Chinatown Gate, and standing behind it was a man with a white badge slung around his neck. No, it wasn’t a scene out of a sci-fi movie. Rather, it was skit by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) to prom...
On Monday, May 3 in Boston, Massachusetts, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), joined by several Asian American community leaders, hosted a multilingual press conference to announce the beginning of the Census Bureau’s Non-Response Follow-up Phase, or door-to-door canvassin...
New York World – Kirk Semple
Besides covering broader stories like immigration policy and the 2010 census, New York’s ethnic newspapers also run items more particular to their individual readership. In the past month, a Chinese newspaper looked at a debate swirling around the name of a play, a Mexic...
By Jeff Gammage -Inquirer Staff Writer
On March 16, ninth grader Lindi Liu was exiting a bathroom stall at South Philadelphia High when another boy kicked the door inward, bashing him in the head.
As Liu picked himself up off the floor, he could hear the boy laughing.
The incident lasted only sec...
RESTAURANT WORKERS PROTEST OUTSIDE OF DOKDO SARANG RESTAURANT AND DEMAND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN UNPAID WAGES
Palisades Park, NJ– The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s New Jersey- Asian American Legal Project (AALDEF NJ-AALP) and former employees of Dokdo Sarang Restaurant h...
CityRoom Blog – By Fernanda Santos
The Vietnamese version of the 2010 census questionnaire used the words “dieu tra” to describe the population tally — but what the words really conveyed was something like a communist government investigation. On Korean forms, “county” was translated into “nation.”...
WASHINGTON, DC – More than thirty organizations across the political spectrum have filed a formal petition with the Department of Homeland Security, urging the federal agency to suspend the airport body scanner program.
Leading security expert Bruce Schneier stated, “Body scanners are one more exam...
Washington — By Mike M. Ahlers. More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of full body imagers at airports, saying there is evidence that privacy safeguards don’t work and the devices are not effective. In a petition filed Wedne...
Today, the New York Voting Rights Consortium (“NYVRC”) warned that New York could potentially lose millions of dollars because communities of color are in danger of being undercounted in the 2010 Census. As of April 5, 2010, the participation rate in New York’s most undercounted counties was far bel...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has complained to U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves about continuing problems in the Bureau’s programs and outreach to Asian Americans. AALDEF, a 36-year old New York-based national organization, released an interim assessment of t...
Today, AALDEF submitted comments on the Obama Administration’s proposal to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). In response to the administration’s “blueprint” for the ESEA, AALDEF outlined specific provisions that if included would improve public school education and incre...
By Jeff Gammage
Inquirer Staff Writer
City school district officials formally acknowledged yesterday that 17-year-old Hao Luu was not connected to a street gang - an allegation that was used to ban him from South Philadelphia High.
Evelyn Sample-Oates, the district’s vice president for communicat...
