Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) participated in a press conference with other Asian American organizations and elected officials in New York City to announce its immigration priorities for the 2019 NYS legislative session. The legislative goals this year will focu...
Is it so bad for anyone to use the angry but inelegant phrase “impeach the motherf*****,” when the guy you are referring to has a salty vocabulary to match?
Everyone can certainly recall before the November 2016 election when Donald Trump boasted about his treatment of women by using a now patented...
Texas Tribune - Amid last-minute efforts to overhaul the state’s voter identification law in light of an ongoing legal fight, the Texas Legislature gaveled out without addressing another embattled election law that’s now moving forward in federal court.
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thur...
As we enter 2019, we should be so lucky if we could extend and expand on the aura of “Crazy Rich Asians,” a film that helped balance the scales in pop culture and media in 2018. The film, which earned $174 million domestically ($238 million worldwide) was the Asian American story of the year.
That ...
When Donald Trump thinks “Asian,” what does he see in his heart and mind?
An immigrant waiter in Chinatown? With or without documents?
Senator Mazie Hirono? His cabinet member, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao?
Or is he thinking China’s president Xi Jinping?
With Trump, the self-described “T...
New York…According to updated results of the November 6, 2018 exit poll by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Asian American voters in 14 states strongly favored Democratic candidates in races for Governor (75%), Senate (81%) and House of Representatives (79%) in the Novem...
Asian Americans may be more behind this federal government shutdown than you think.
If you’re one of the 1.8 million who were covered by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, you’re a big reason we’re in this mess.
Yes, it is ironic that the man in Santa’s sleigh...
NBC News - Dona Kim Murphey volunteered for the first time this year as a Korean-language interpreter, helping out at an early voting day in late October in Harris County, Texas…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/federal-law-allows-nearly-anyone-translate-voters-polls-it-can-n949056
So Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen gets three years and Michael Flynn will get sentenced this week. What should Trump get?
Oh, yes, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. He’s still just “Individual-1,” but there is so much out there, it’s hard to keep up with all the lies. Just ask Rudy Giuliani, charge...
There is only one major question after Friday’s devastating memo dump.
Is it time to bring out the “I” word, in all its glory?
For Asian Americans, a key point person in the House of Representatives has been Congressman Ted Lieu from Los Angeles. I’ve followed him since his days as a California st...
AALDEF submitted the following comment to the Department of Homeland Security, opposing the proposed rule change to inadmissibility on public charge grounds. You can also download the comment here.
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Samantha Deshommes, Chief Regulatory Coordination Division, Office of Policy and Strategy
U.S. Ci...
Kings County Politics - City Council Member Mark Treyger (D-Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Gravesend, Sea Gate) and a broad coalition of elected officials, advocacy organizations, and leaders from communities across the city rallied outside City Hall today, calling for increased interpreter ...
Earlier this year, Vogue’s Anna Wintour was called a “fur hag” by animal rights protestors in New York. But in any doting hagiography, Wintour would be hailed not as a “hag” but as a “saint.”
Of course, she’d have to die first.
I’m thinking about the term “hagiography” a lot lately because when so...
Flushing, NY— U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng hosted a press conference today announcing the launch of the New York City APA Complete Count Committee, organized by the MinKwon Center for Community Action, a member of New York Counts 2020, and other Asian Pacific American organizations and leaders, alo...
A person I know, an Asian American, tried to commit suicide many years ago.
They called me up and we talked. They lived.
Now they are older and near dementia. But the memory of that critical moment when I kept them on the phone for hours is forgotten.
Even without their current circumstances, the...
We should have expected the skirmishes on the southern border that occurred over the weekend. When Donald Trump sends military force to the border, you are relieved that all you hear about is tear gas. But you’re dismayed because there’s no good reason the situation couldn’t have been handled more p...
Asian Americans who lived in San Francisco will remember Herb Caen, the columnist who made his use of the ellipsis legendary in his creation of three-dot journalism…So I’m in that state of mind… Right now… Three dots it is, demarcations of thoughts and items in a vertical space, a column (oh, let’s ...
Huffington Post - Data show that Asian-Americans are continuing to trend left. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) recently released its exit poll from last week’s midterm elections, which included responses from more than 7,600 Asian-Americans who voted. The survey found th...
Philly.com - Twenty-three owners of neighborhood Chinese restaurants in Philadelphia have filed a federal lawsuit alleging “invidious discrimination against certain Chinese people and their Chinese take-out restaurant businesses in Philadelphia,” through the passage and enforcement of the city’s “11...
Texas Standard - Korean American groups in Houston are raising concerns about the availability of translation services when voting. They met with Harris County officials early this week to try to find a solution before Election Day on Tuesday, November 6…
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/news-...
