I’m kneeling.
But not for the NFL, and not necessarily for my free speech rights (witness, I still have them). Most certainly, I am not on bended knee for Donald Trump (more on the NFL issue later).
No, as a good Catholic, I’m kneeling in prayer for Puerto Rico.
It could be the 51st state, after ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), in partnership with the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ), the New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health (NYCAAMH), and the Chinese-American Family Al...
Rafu Shimpo - The children of Gordon Hirabayashi, Minoru Yasui, and Fred Korematsu on Sept. 18 filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing Executive Order 13780, the Trump Administration’s travel ban…
On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, 12 noon to 1:30 pm, AALDEF will conduct a DACA Renewal Training Webinar for pro bono lawyers, in conjunction with the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY).
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Sept. 5, 2017, the rescission and “winding down” of the ...
For real bipartisanship in Congress, we must celebrate the passing this week of a resolution in both the House and Senate to honor Filipino World War II veterans with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Low-hanging fruit? Slam dunk? Not necessarily.
It required 70 senators to co-sponsor a resolution led...
As the head of the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama administration, Janet Napolitano knows all about DACA. Though it was announced by President Obama, it was Napolitano’s agency’s plan.
Now as the president of the University of California system, Napolitano feels DACA was repealed “capr...
When President Obama was hailed as ushering in a “post-racial” America, the phrase was often said derisively by those who wished to bury our country’s race mistakes of the past.
That would include immigration exclusion laws, but the main debt was slavery. It was the only way some people could dea...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) was appalled to hear Attorney General Jeff Sessions announce this morning that the Trump administration is ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protection for the roughly 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the U.S...
NBC News - Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) groups are among those slamming the Trump administration for its decision to end an Obama-era executive action that allowed undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children..
Asian American Press - Reaction from organizations and elected officials around the country have condened the Trump Administration’s action to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that allows children of undocumented parents..
If you’re a president known for tweeting, of course, there’s only one way to show any empathy.
You do selfies.
It was Trump in what would be known as a “mulligan” in golf–his second visit to Houston since Hurricane Harvey demolished Texas. Trump arrived on Saturday at the NRG shelter in Houston ...
“This is the worst,” Ed Gor, a Houston resident, told me on our podcast, Emil Amok’s Takeout. We were on the phone Sunday talking about the power of Harvey, demoted from hurricane to tropical storm, but still packing a wallop.
Gor knows he was lucky for now. His street was flooded, but the water ...
Asian American voters entitled to interpreters of their choice under Voting Rights Act
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision last week that affirmed the district court ruling that the Texas law, which requires interpreters...
To better understand what’s happening in this great country, let’s all engage in the metaphor of the day!
The total eclipse of the sun will be over in less than three minutes.
But take off the glasses, open your eyes, and see the real eclipse that’s going on over the entire country.
That would ...
The Trump hotel brand oozes opulent luxuriousness. But now that Trump is in public office for the first time (and right at the top), I’ve coined a word to capture the new Trump style of government and political rhetoric.
Take one part truculent (“the quality of being disposed or eager to fight or e...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) was appalled to learn that the President and two Republican senators intend to push for the enactment of the RAISE Act, which would drastically reduce the number of immigrant visas (green cards) available on an annual basis by 50%. The RAI...
On the edge of Chinatown in San Francisco, Filipinos always gravitated to Kearny Street. Known as Manilatown, it was not a tourist trap, just a place Filipinos called home.
But by 1977, development was eating up real estate on Kearny Street. Manilatown was down to just one block, anchored by what w...
Eddie Huang said he’s currently working on a novel now. But when he first started writing a few years back and his literary ambitions were high, book publishers wanted a cook book, not a memoir.
He ultimately wrote the groundbreaking book, “Fresh off the Boat.”
It’s the good cheese compared to the...
When I saw that BD Wong was recently nominated for an Emmy, my first instinct was to offer congratulations.
So I was surprised when I saw an Asian American group refrain from offering kudos and take the stand that only trans actors should get trans roles.
Sort of makes sense. Unless you’ve actua...
In a news week that contained O.J. Simpson’s parole and President Trump’s trade-in for a slicker New York mouthpiece, sandwiched by even more Russia-Trump trauma, it’s not surprising you haven’t heard much about a story that recently took place in Washington, DC.
But it has a large segment of the A...
