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Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus, The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati today filed suit against Secretary of State Alex Padilla demanding increased access to language assistance for limited English...
Advancing Justice mourns the death of Senator Daniel Akaka, who served in the House and Senate for three and a half decades. After being hospitalized for months, he passed away early this morning in Honolulu. He was 93.
Late Tuesday night, West Covina City Council members affirmed the City’s commitment to immigrants as a vital and integral part of the community by upholding and not taking action on SB 54, also known as the California Values Act. The vote is a welcome change from just last year, when the City Council voted to formally oppose the legislation...
Last night, by a vote of 3 to 2, the San Gabriel City Council passed a safe city resolution, which will protect community members and residents at risk of arrest, detention, and deportation. The Diversity and Inclusion Resolution (No. 18-15) comes nearly two months after the City Council voted to rescind an agreement between the San Gabriel...
On Monday night, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it would include a question on citizenship in the upcoming 2020 Census.
Today, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) called for U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, to issue a formal public apology to Representative Colleen Hanabusa for his inappropriate use of the Japanese language in response to her question about preserving funding for memorials recognizing the WWII incarceration of...
Today U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump Administration will sue California over the state’s sanctuary laws.
Vietnamese refugees have filed a nationwide class action lawsuit challenging their detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Since March 2017, ICE began picking up dozens of Vietnamese refugees and subjecting them to prolonged and indefinite detention in violation of federal law. Many of them were young children or teenagers...
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