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...
This weekend, I’ll be thinking about Peter Wang, the 15-year old from Parkland, Florida, last seen alive by his friends when he gallantly held open a classroom door for other students instead of seeking refuge himself during the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School.
For his act of courage, Wang...
If you’re of Chinese background, do you ever have non-Chinese people come up to you and try to score points with a well timed “Ni hao”?
Or if you’re Filipino, do you get a “Mabuhay” or two?
According to the latest Census numbers, there are about five million of Chinese ancestry in the U.S. and ano...
Stormy Daniels, Kim Jong Un, and trade war inducing tariffs? The Trump administration is a never-ending three-ring circus, where chaos is Trump’s best friend. How can the American public get a grip on any of the really big issues like gun control after Parkland, or the ongoing Russian investigations...
All along I was rooting for “The Shape of Water.”
I do, after all, pronounce my name, “GILL-yermo.”
It’s my line in the sand with director Guillermo del Toro.
We disagree on how to say his first name, which is my last name.
That’s diversity for you. He pronounces it the Mexican way—the double-L ...
I wish I could have hung on to the Chloe Kim snowboarding victory and let it last the entire two weeks.
This was supposed to be an Asian American Winter Olympics in Asia, especially the way NBC was pushing both Kim and men’s figure skater Nathan Chen.
We know about the Asian American Olympians of ...
New York Times - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund also held a Lunar New Year gala, on Feb. 15 at Pier 60. This year’s honorees, from left: Chan Lee; Linda Greenhouse, a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times; and Preet Bharara. (Photo by Rebecca Smeyne)
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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...
Forget the orange hair. Donald Trump wants to get his white on. Or at least keep it where it’s at.
There is no other way to look at it.
Trump’s immigration agenda is all about stopping the inevitable in the U.S.
Every reputable demographic study knows the reality. At some point by mid century, ar...
Preet Bharara knows what it’s like to deal with Donald Trump.
The former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York–who made it to the cover of Time magazine for going after Wall Street criminals with a vengeance–was asked personally by President-elect Trump to stay on after the Obama Admi...
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...
Huffington Post - One snowy winter day, after standing at his restaurant job washing dishes, Jinlong Chen came home to the apartment that he and his wife shared with several other families on Beach Street in Boston’s Chinatown….
When Donald Trump gives his first actual State of the Union address, what the country really needs is a confessional, not fake news.
We need the president to come clean. Did he attempt to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller at the start of the Russia investigation last summer? The president doesn’t...
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...
Cheska Perez is a Filipina who was brought to the U.S. by her parents when she was just six years old. It’s the standard story. She didn’t have a choice.
She didn’t know the U.S. government would shut down because of her.
Perez entered legally when her father, like so many others from the Philippi...
Joongang Ilbo - The Korean Service Center (KCS) and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will hold immigration briefing sessions on the 24th at Bayside Community Center…
Global Times - Negotiations between the White House and Congress regarding the future of the so-called Dreamers have left many in the Chinese community unnerved. The Dreamers - immigrants who were brought to the US illegally when they were children…
If his pussy grabbing rhetoric wasn’t enough to sink his candidacy in 2016, why do you think Trump’s talking about immigrants from Africa and Haiti as coming from “shithole” countries will phase him?
But now, the president has gone too far. His racism cannot be excused.
Trump has made it a practic...
That strange immigration meeting at the White House on Tuesday looked like a scene from a political “Twilight Zone.”
Was Trump really negotiating an immigration deal with a bipartisan group from Congress while the cameras rolled? Sure looked like it.
The president was even urging what he called a ...
After I burned up my Kindle reading “Fire and Fury”–Michael Wolff’s fly-on-the-wall tale of the Trump White House–here’s the most positive and optimistic thing I can say: There is no reason an Asian American couldn’t be president of the United States in the near future.
Oh, we’d need to have the mo...
