Despite vigorous opposition from local businesses and small property owners, Chinatown is in the process of being turned into a “Business Improvement District” (BID). This designation means that the City Council voted to require property owners to pay additional fees ranging from $200 to $5,000 a
Prompted by a spate of troubling news reports on racial profiling and surveillance of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), together with the Brennan Center for Justice and Muslim Advocates, has called upon the New York City Police
New York -Since 2003, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has practiced a policy unjustly targeting and detaining thousands of Muslim immigrants, said the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian Law Caucus (ALC), as they released today their analysis of hund
New York, NY…The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has filed a second lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Gold and Silver Aging Home Care Inc. (“Gold and Silver”), which failed to pay nine weeks of wages to a Chinese worker, Ms. Q. M. Chen. The new lawsuit seeks to obta
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Gold & Silver Aging Home Care Inc., which failed to pay nine weeks of wages to a Chinese worker and no overtime pay at all. The lawsuit seeks to obtain the back wages owed to the plain
Al Falah Center continues challenge to zoning laws that would block mosque.
A New Jersey federal judge has ruled that the Al Falah Center and Muslim community residents can proceed with their legal challenge to a hastily-concocted zoning ordinance that would bar construction of a mosque in Bridgewa
Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed a lawsuit late yesterday in Supreme Court, New York County against the Department of Education of the City of New York, seeking an order compelling the Department of Education to release c
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The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is a 37-year old New York-based national civil rights organization. AALDEF does precedent-setting litigation, advocacy and policy work in the areas of economic justice for workers, immigrant rig
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), with pro bono co-counsel Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, filed an amicus “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Gonzalez v. Arizona, challenging the legality of Proposition 200, Arizona’s re
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund testified before the New York City Council’s Finance Committee, opposing the proposed Chinatown Business Improvement District (BID) because of its potential negative impacts on small businesses and residents in Chinatown. A coalition of smal
AALDEF and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law Call for Immigration Reform, Transparency, Rights Protections
New York, NY…The U.S. government’s aggressive use of the immigration system in its counterterrorism efforts discriminates against Muslims and violates interna
Alleges Township Broke Law, Stifled Religious Freedom
The Al Falah Center brought suit today against Bridgewater Township (NJ), seeking to compel the town to allow Al Falah to move forward with plans to renovate an existing building so it could be used as a mosque and community center. These plans
GULFPORT, MS – A lawsuit filed today by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Signal International, LLC for abusing hundreds of foreign guestworkers lured to work in the U.S. after Hurricane Katrina reinforces similar claims brought by the guestworkers, their attorneys say. The
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)’s New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project announced a major victory for two Indian Gujarati food factory workers in a federal lawsuit against Rajbhog Foods (NJ), Inc. and its owners. The workers recovered $8,500 for unpaid minimum wage and
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today filed a civil complaint in Rhode Island federal court on behalf of a Filipina immigrant worker against a student at the U.S. Naval War College’s International Program from the United Arab Emirates (“U.A.E.”) and his wife for violatin
On Thursday, April 6, a broad-based NYC coalition of 75 civil rights, religious and community groups, including AALDEF, will hold a press conference in front of City Hall, criticizing the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bias of speakers scheduled to testify at Friday’s hearing of the New York State S
Last week the U.S. Census Bureau released detailed data from the 2010 census for New York State. The Bureau reported an all time high of 1,579,494 Asian Americans in New York State; and 1,038,388 in New York City. The Bureau also found that Asian Americans were the fastest growing minority group, wi
AALDEF joined 54 other organizations in an open letter to Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, criticizing the upcoming March 10 hearings on The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community.
“By singling out one particular religious group for investig
Today, AALDEF and other members of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side presented its Special District Rezoning plan to a meeting of the Chinatown Working Group.
The Coalition formed in 2008 to address the gentrification and displacement that is changing the working class, imm
On March 2, 2011, AALDEF sent a letter to town officials in Bridgewater, NJ, expressing its support for the application to create the Al Falah Islamic Center. The letter urged the Township Council to reject a proposed zoning ordinance that would deny Muslims in Bridgewater a place to practice their
