Tonight, President Obama announced his plan to provide administrative relief to certain groups of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. The following is a statement by Margaret Fung, executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund:
“We welcome President Obam...
Immigration reform? By executive action? The thing Asian Americans have talked about for nearly a year now?
Yes, yes, yes.
According to media reports, the plan would provide deportation relief for up to 5 million people. It would expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program fo...
New York…Asian American voters in 11 states strongly supported executive action on immigration reform (65%) and favored Democratic candidates in the 2014 midterm elections in eight states, according to updated results of an exit poll by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). T...
The national midterm narrative so far has been about how voters repudiated President Obama and his policies.
But this isn’t the Asian American narrative.
Neither is it Elaine Chao standing next to her husband, the presumptive new Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
No, the Asian American na...
AALDEF EXIT POLL OF 4,200 ASIAN AMERICAN VOTERS SHOWS STRONG SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN MIDTERM ELECTIONS
New York…Asian American voters in 11 states and Washington DC largely supported Democratic candidates in the 2014 midterm elections, according to preliminary results of an exit poll r...
New York…Asian American voters, including new citizens with limited English proficiency and first-time voters, encountered barriers at polling places in the 2014 midterm elections. The problems included a shortage of Asian-language interpreters, missing names on voter rolls, poll worker interference...
Pardon my October. I’ve been busy being American Filipino during Filipino American History Month. And in the moments that remain, I’ve been nervously watching the San Francisco Giants break and unbreak my heart, until they finally decided to win the World Series and give back my life.
(Pablo Sand...
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND TO POLL 5,000 ASIAN AMERICAN VOTERS AND DOCUMENT VOTING PROBLEMS IN 11 STATES ON ELECTION DAY
Multilingual Voter Hotline: 800-966-5946
New York City…The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 40-yNew York City…The Asian American Legal Defense ...
Voices of New York - Tim Wu may have lost his bid to become lieutenant governor, but the Taiwanese-American Columbia law professor gained a whole lot during the final weeks of his primary campaign with his fellow lawyer and running mate Zephyr Teachout…
Voting rights coalition works with Mayor, City Council, agency heads to improve compliance
New York, October 21, 2014 – City agencies are not doing enough to help New Yorkers register to vote found a new report released today by the Pro-Voter Law Coalition. The coalition of groups is led by Center ...
I was too busy watching baseball this week to catch Bill O’Reilly on “The Daily Show,” where he defended his belief in the Model Minority myth and how it’s evolved into a sense of “Asian American Privilege.”
Who needs that bunk when there was a very special Asian American event happening at the San...
These days, in the internet era when Bush’s NSA policies continue under Obama, it must be presumed that everyone is under some kind of surveillance.
Even innocent Asian Americans.
And given the global nature of things, it would take a real leap of faith to believe foreign governments of our ancest...
October means new TV shows, the best baseball, and my favorite ethnic heritage month–Filipino American History Month.
Or, as I like to call it, “American Filipino” History Month.
I flip it. On purpose. It’s my linguistic revolution to force others to see the community with new eyes and get beyond ...
AALDEF submitted a joint letter with New York Immigration Coalition, Internationals Network for Public Schools, and Advocates for Children of New York to the U.S. Department of Education, expressing its support for the New York State Education Department’s requested ESEA waiver amendments regarding ...
I’m a big believer in art when justice fails. I’m doing an excerpt of my solo performance show, “Emil Amok,” at the San Francisco Public Library on Oct. 9 at 6 pm. It’s part of “Compositions,” the Alvarado photo exhibit that is the anchor of the library’s Filipino American History Month activities.
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Forty-seven tomahawk cruise missiles in fighter bombers were sent to bomb 14 targets in Syria, the Department of Defense told NBC and other news media, which this morning released a DOD tape of some of the action.
And now you can go about your business. Everyone else seems to be.
Members of Cong...
AALDEF and RAISE are participating in a Know Your Rights event on Sunday, Sept. 28 at P.S. 24, 427 38th Street, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to discuss the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, eligibility criteria, benefits and services, and personal experiences from Asian undocumented youth...
DEFEND ASIAN AMERICAN VOTING RIGHTS
In past elections, Asian Americans have faced a series of barriers in exercising their right to vote. When the news media reported on election results, Asian Americans were overlooked. In response, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund along with se...
Thirteen years later, we all have learned at least this key lesson: Al-Qaeda is not Iraq.
But after President Bush’s faulty logic used the terror attacks of 9/11 to justify war in Iraq, it seems President Obama is willing to make a similar mistake again.
By announcing to the nation on the eve of t...
I found this in my hamper today.
It was a reminder of an event I covered on one of the coldest days I’ve ever experienced–January 20, 2009.
That’s when “Hope and Change” supposedly had come to Washington.
Five years later and we’re still out in the cold–especially this weekend when President Ob...
