New York City… AALDEF’s preliminary exit poll results of more than 7,600 Asian American voters in the 2018 midterm elections reveal that Asian Americans strongly favored Democratic Senate and Gubernatorial candidates in closely-contested races in Texas, Georgia, Nevada, and Florida.
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On the day after one of the biggest turnouts ever for a U.S. midterm election, the president of the United States won’t let reality spoil his view of life through Trump-colored glasses.
2018 midterms? Why, they were a “tremendous success,” according to a succinct Trump tweet.
But then he gave a ne...
This is the most racially charged election I’ve experienced in nearly a generation.
It was 1994—24 years ago– that California voted overwhelmingly for Prop.187, a ballot initiative to deny public services to the undocumented. The law was later ruled unconstitutional. But it proved that even in the ...
U.S. News and World Report - A federal judge in Boston is scheduled to hear closing arguments Friday in a highly publicized lawsuit alleging that elite Harvard discriminates against Asian-Americans.
Much of the spotlight has been on affluent Chinese-Americans with stellar academic scores who say th...
NBC News - Immigrant rights groups and attorneys Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump’s declared intention to end birthright citizenship with an executive order as a political ploy before the midterm elections…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigrant-rights-groups-blast-trump-s-call-end-bir...
Today, Axios released its interview with President Trump, who indicated his plans to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship.
Margaret Fung, AALDEF executive director, issued the following statement:
“Trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship by signing an executive order. Th...
AALDEF condemns the violence and anti-Semitism that claimed the lives of eleven members of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue the morning of Saturday, October 27.
The murderer was vocal and clear about his hatred. He blamed a Jewish refugee aid group for “bring[ing] invaders in that kill our peopl...
On October 29, 2018, AALDEF submitted comments to the New York City Department of City Planning on behalf of several community groups, opposing the Two Bridges Large Scale Residential Development because the towers violate the NYC Zoning Resolution and their adverse environmental impacts were not ad...
(CAMBRIDGE, MASS)–I got back from a vacation just in time for the pipe bombs and attempted assassination attempts on two former presidents, among other prominent outspoken people, and a major media organization.
It’s the reason I took a vacation in the first place–to get away from the nasty hot rhe...
Courthouse News Service - An affirmative action case against Harvard University finally went to trial Monday, four years after a lawsuit was filed claiming the nation’s oldest college discriminates against prospective Asian-American students by considering race in the admissions process.
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Once the 15th passes, the confluence of National Hispanic Heritage Month and Filipino American History Month ends, and the Filipinos have October all to themselves.
Or so I thought.
October turns out to be a little promiscuous. It’s also German American Heritage Month (Oh, yeah that Octoberfest th...
I am banging my gong slowly to herald the change our country is about to endure.
Even before the sex and beer issues that cloud the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, there were the issues beyond Roe v. Wade that were important to Asian Americans and gave many of us reason to dou...
Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 6) is just one month away! AALDEF is recruiting volunteers to ensure the Asian American voice is heard nationwide through our Asian American Exit Poll and Poll Monitoring project.
In past elections, Asian Americans have faced a series of barriers in exercising their righ...
Fighters of racism and sexism, it’s going to take more than a week-long FBI investigation to get to the bottom of what’s becoming the Kavanaugh debacle.
At his Rose Garden media conference, Donald Trump did something Monday that shows he doesn’t truly understand what the hubbub over his Supreme Cou...
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford had me at “I’m terrified.”
She read it in her opening statement. But the observation was also noted by Rachel Mitchell, the Maricopa County attorney who was hired by the Republican males of the Senate Judiciary Committee to be their prophylactic device.
They didn’t like t...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) condemns the recent announcement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of a proposed “public charge” rule that could deny permanent resident status (“green cards”) to immigrants who use such government services as nutrition programs...
It’s just been a few days since the world saw two major catastrophic weather events– in Asia and America–develop and land simultaneously.
But please don’t utter the phrase, “We got off easy.”
If you do, kindly continue to bury your head in the sand, but for fun and emphasis do switch out the sand ...
Pardon me for being so ebullient when that anonymous
New York Times op-ed writer heralded the Resistance Inside.
Seems like it wasn’t the cavalry to the rescue, after all.
As President Obama said himself at a speech in Illinois on Friday, these times are “not normal.” They’re “extraordinary,” and ...
Washington Post — In its latest push to end the use of race in college admissions, the Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of “engaging in outright racial balancing” and sided with Asian-American students who allege the Ivy League school discriminated against them. Harvard de...
Harvard Gazette - More than 500 social scientists, 16 statisticians and economists, numerous Asian American organizations, Harvard student and alumni groups and coalitions, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed briefs on Thursday in support...
