Tracking the politics of immigration reform and its intersection with human and civil rights
By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor Asian Americans across the U.S. reflected on their community’s vulnerability to racist attacks, after 21 year-old Robert Aaron Long killed six Asian American women at three locations in Georgia on March 16. Long, who told...
By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor On Feb. 25 evening, a man scaled the wall of the 117-year-old Higashi Honganji Buddist Temple temple in Los Angeles County’s ‘Little Tokyo’ neighborhood and set fire to two wooden lanterns at the entrance to the temple, then...
From left to right: John C. Yang, President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC; Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League; Manjusha P. Kulkarni, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council...
Clockwise from top left: Adriana L. García, Associate Director of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Office of Immigrant Affairs; Rigo Reyes, Executive Director of LA County’s Office of Immigrant Affairs; Daniel Sharp, former Legal Director of the Central American Resource Center...
Also available in Chinese, Korean, and Thai. By Mark Hedin, Ethnic Media Services As the whole world struggles against the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles is offering free, in-language legal help for Koreans, Chinese,...