Carl Higbie Needs to Learn AAPI History
Yesterday, I reported that Trump supporter Carl Higbie had appeared on Fox News’ The Kelly File to offer Japanese American incarceration (a…
Tag: Immigration
Asian Americans Must Join the Fight to #StopSessions (and #StopBannon)
Earlier this morning, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has chosen Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to fill the role of…
Deportations of Southeast Asian Americans: A Glaring Human Rights Issue in an Unjust Immigration System
By Guest Contributors: Chanida Phaengdara Potter (@LittleLaosBlog, @chanidanoy) and Mia-lia Boua Kiernan (@1lovemovement1) Last week, war veterans, mothers, fathers, family, friends, and…
Trump Includes Philippines, Pakistan Among “Terrorist” Nations Whose Immigrants He’d Restrict
Earlier this month, Donald Trump spoke to a rally in Portland, Maine where he repeated one of his most infamous…
BREAKING: Nan-Hui Jo Released From Federal Custody | #StandWithNanHui
Activists tell me that Nan-Hui Jo — the Korean survivor of domestic abuse who fled her abuser with her young…
Lawyer: Botched Jury Instructions Led to Wrongful Kidnapping Conviction for DV Survivor | #StandWithNanHui
There have been major developments in the case of Nan-Hui Jo, the Korean American survivor of domestic violence who fled…
An Open Letter To Nan-Hui Jo | #DearNanHui #StandWithNanHui #Not1More
Today, the Stand With Nan-Hui group launched a letter-writing campaign urging supporters to write letters of support to and for Nan-Hui Jo, who…
Domestic Violence Survivor Faces Child Abduction Charges, Deportation | #StandWithNanHui
This is a terrible story of the American legal system getting it really wrong. Nan-Hui Jo is a single mother…
Obama makes a small – but necessary – first step towards comprehensive immigration reform
In a speech — less than 20 minutes long and snubbed by the country’s major cable networks — President Barack…
Canada cancels investor visas: modern Chinese Exclusion, or a sign that Canadian citizenship isn’t for sale?
Although most avenues of legal citizenship to North America involves skill- or job-based visas, one of the lesser-known avenues of…
Should there be a White House petition to establish a U.S. federal “Immigrants Day” holiday?
The Asian American blogosphere has been a-twitter over a recent White House petition asking that Lunar New Year be made a U.S.…