A federal judge halted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing its controversial “public charge” rule, a policy change that advocacy groups assert would have disproportionately blocked immigrants of color from obtaining permanent resident status and inhibited immigrant workers an
Today, AALDEF submitted testimony to the New York State Senate Internet and Technology Committee, which held a hearing to “identify the needs of workers and employers operating outside the traditional employee-employer dynamic and determine possible legislative avenues.” AALDEF called for the equal
On September 10 and October 10, 2019, AALDEF Democracy Program attorney Patricia Yan testified at public hearings in Austin and Dallas organized by the Texas House Redistricting Committee, urging the state to keep Asian American communities together in new political districts drawn after the 2020 Ce
The City of Philadelphia has reached an agreement with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) to settle a lawsuit over the City’s 11 P.M. Ordinance. AALDEF, with pro bono counsel Pepper Hamilton LLP, filed this lawsuit, Liu v. City of Philadelphia, on behalf of 23 Chinese takeo
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today praised the decision by a federal court in Massachusetts, which found that Harvard University’s race-conscious admissions policy is constitutional and does not discriminate against Asian Americans.
AALDEF executive director Margaret
New York Times - President Trump played second fiddle on Sunday to Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, at a boisterous cultural rally in which the American president was technically just an invited guest.
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Indian-Americans have supported both Democrats and Republicans in the past, thoug
Sixty Immigrant and Civil Rights Groups Join Amicus Brief
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Advancing Justice | AAJC (Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC), and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), along with pro bono counsel Crowell Moring, filed amicus br
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) condemns the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) publication this week of its final public charge rule that would deny permanent resident status (“green cards”) to immigrants who use such government services as nutrition pro
Know your rights! Come to AALDEF’s free immigration clinic on Thursday, July 25, 2019, 6 pm to 8 pm, at Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street, in Queens. Free legal consultations, assistance with DACA renewal applications, mental health resources and benefit screenings, and information about financial
On June 5, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) opened a third notice and comment period for its proposed rule changes affecting the fee waiver application process. These proposed changes would discourage immigrants from filing for fee waivers and immigration benefits and would li
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s decision to block the addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 Census in Department of Commerce v. New York (18-966) and remanded the case for further proceedings.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the N
Last night, the New York State (NYS) Senate passed the “Green Light Bill,” which restores access to driver’s licenses to all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status. Shortly thereafter, Governor Cuomo signed the bill into the law, making New York the 13th state in the country to provide equal
New York, NY – A group of ex-restaurant workers in Kim v Yoo (Case 18-1447) won a new victory before a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Appeals Court. The Panel affirmed the decision and judgment of the late SDNY Judge Robert Sweet, who found that Ji Sung Yoo, the owner of Kum Gang San, Korea
Last night, the House Judiciary Committee advanced the Dream Act and the American Promise Act– legislation that would establish a roadmap to citizenship for over two million people, including undocumented youth and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, as well as Temporary Protec
The Texas Secretary of State will reform the way it identifies voters for investigation of U.S. citizenship and withdraw the election advisory sent to all counties earlier this year, according to a settlement agreement reached today with civil rights groups.
The lawsuit was filed by Latino voters a
New York City…On April 1, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the addition of a proposed citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Sixty-four (64) bar ass
Today, AALDEF filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court to challenge the City’s approval of four luxury megatowers in the Two Bridges neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. If allowed to stand, the approval would bring enormous change to the neighborhood. These towers would add over 2.5 million esti
This morning, President Trump declared a national emergency in order to bypass Congress and fund his unnecessary and harmful wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. With this declaration, the President will have access to $8 billion, taken largely from Department of Defense funds that would have gone to
On Jan. 22, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take up the challenges in three lower courts to the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In January and February, 2018, federal judges in California and New York, respectively, tempor
The Supreme Court has decided not to hear the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cases in the current term, which means that DACA will remain in effect for at least one more year. (See our press release on this new development.)
What now?
Know your rights! Come to AALDEF’s free DACA ren
