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Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA) litigation director Laboni Hoq was recognized by the South Asian Bar Association of North America (SABA) with a Public Interest Achievement Award. She was presented with the award at the SABA annual conference in New York City.
The City of Los Angeles is set to receive a $425,000 grant from the federal Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program supposedly aimed at building community resistance to extremism. But under the Trump administration, the secretive CVE program poses a dangerous threat to the civil rights and religious liberties of American Muslims.
The only consensus Speaker Paul Ryan got with his immigration bill today was to let anti-immigrant politicians openly attack and scapegoat immigrants and their families on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Today the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Trump Administration's third iteration of the Muslim Ban in a 5-4 decision. Rather than reinforcing the notion that America welcomes people regardless of where they are born, what they look like, or how they pray, the Supreme Court instead upheld a ban, driven by anti-Muslim sentiment,...
This morning, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA) launched its inaugural Hindi helpline with the support of the Democracy Fund and the New Americans Campaign. This new helpline will support naturalization and immigration services to the South Asian community.
In a purely symbolic, political act, House leaders forced a floor vote on Rep. Goodlatte’s “Securing America’s Future Act” to appease the extremists in their caucus. Although the Senate says they won’t take up either the Goodlatte or the Ryan-Trump immigration bills, supporters in the House have scheduled the Ryan-Trump bill for a vote tomorrow...
Nicole Ochi, supervising attorney for Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA)’s Impact Litigation project, has been named one of this year’s best 40 lawyers under 40 in California by the Daily Journal. The award honors lawyers from California under the age of 40 who have achieved prominence and distinction in...
Donald Trump is trying to clean up the mess he made after months of separating children from their families and locking them up in detention camps. He may have caved in under political pressure today with this executive order, but Trump and his administration are still responsible for putting children in cages.
It’s a moment of truth for House members this week when they vote on two anti-immigrant bills. The Goodlatte and Ryan-Trump bills essentially do the same thing: both create anunderclass of immigrant young people, both grossly reduce legal immigration and stop hundreds of thousands of families from reuniting with their loved ones, botheliminates...
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