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Press Releases - News for Asian American Justice Center

 
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Civil Rights Organizations Release Redistricting Guide to Promote Community Participation in 2011 Redistricting Processes

Release Date: 25-Aug-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Voting Rights
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Asian American Justice Center, and MALDEF release "The Impact of Redistricting In Your Community: A Guide to Redistricting" LOS ANGELES - Today, three leading civil rights groups launched a campaign to promote their collaborative redistricting guide for the upcoming local, state and congressional redistricting processes. MALDEF, the NAACP Legal Defense and ...
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AAJC Commemorates Anniversary of Language-Assistance Order

Release Date: 20-Aug-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Language Access
WASHINGTON-This month the Asian American Justice Center celebrates the 10th anniversary of the presidential executive order that requires state courts to provide people who are not fluent in English with language assistance and thanked the Justice Department with its continued vigilance on this point. Earlier this week, the Justice Department issued a letter to state courts reminding them of their obligations under  ...
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AAJC and NAPABA Concerned by Blocking of Judicial Nominees

Release Date: 17-Aug-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Nominations
WASHINGTON-Prior to adjourning for its August recess, the Senate failed to vote on the nominations of Asian Pacific American judicial nominees Judge Edward M. Chen and Professor Goodwin Liu, as well as several other judicial candidates. Their nominations have been returned to President Obama and NAPABA and AAJC strongly encourage President Obama to resubmit their nominations when the Senate returns from recess in September.  ...
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AAJC Applauds Historic Confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court

Release Date: 9-Aug-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Nominations
The Asian American Justice Center welcomed Thursday’s 63-37 Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court of Elena Kagan, making her the fourth woman ever and marking a historic moment on the Court by which three of the nine justices will be women when it convenes in October.
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Court Overturns California’s Discriminatory Proposition 8

Release Date: 5-Aug-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  GLBT Rights
The Asian American Justice Center welcomed Northern District of California U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s decision Thursday that California cannot prevent gay couples from marrying.
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Court Blocks Implementation of Most Egregious Sections of Arizona's Racial Profiling Law in ACLU Lawsuit

Release Date: 28-Jul-10
Author or Contact: Nicole Duran
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Immigration
Ensuring that Arizona law enforcement will not be required to demand “papers” from people they stop who they suspect are “unlawfully present” in the U.S., a federal court today blocked the most egregious provisions of Arizona’s racial profiling law, known as SB 1070, pending a final court ruling on its constitutionality.
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AAJC Fights Arizona Immigration Law in Court

Release Date: 22-Jul-10
Author or Contact: Nicole Duran
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Immigration
At a federal court hearing today, the Asian American Justice Center and Asian Pacific American Legal Center, members of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, along with a coalition of civil rights groups, argued that Arizona’s discriminatory new law, known as SB 1070, should be blocked pending a final court ruling on its constitutionality.
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AAJC and NAPABA Pleased with Senate Hearing for Judicial Nominees Leslie E. Kobayashi and Edmond E. Chang

Release Date: 16-Jul-10
Author or Contact: Nicole Duran
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Nominations
Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for the Honorable Leslie E. Kobayashi, nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, and for Edmond E. Chang, nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. President Obama nominated Judge Kobayashi and Mr. Chang to serve as federal judges on April 21, 2010.
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AAJC Urges Congress to Support Legislation that Reunites Immigrant Families

Release Date: 15-Jul-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Immigration
WASHINGTON- Statement of Karen K. Narasaki, president and executive director of the Asian American Justice Center, a member of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, on comprehensive immigration reform and the Uniting American Families Act: "AAJC joins congressional leaders here today in an urgent call to action for support of legislation that addresses the broken family immigration system. The chronic inadequate ...
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APALC and AAJC Applaud Department of Justice Suit Against Arizona

Release Date: 6-Jul-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Immigration
Today the Justice Department filed suit against Arizona, asserting that the state’s new immigration law violates the Constitution’s supremacy clause and illegally intrudes on the federal government’s power to enforce our immigration laws.
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Asian American Civil Rights Groups File Amicus Brief in Georgia Supreme Court Case

Release Date: 6-Jul-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Adult ESL
Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, in collaboration with the Atlanta office of the international law firm King & Spalding,filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Georgia Supreme Court Monday that highlights the profound effect the absence of a trained, qualified court interpreter can have on the outcome of a case for non-English speakers.
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AAJC Releases Ground-breaking Research on English Language Learning

Release Date: 6-Jul-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Adult ESL
WASHINGTON-The ability to speak English is essential for immigrants. It is the gateway to citizenship and living wage jobs. For Asian Americans, adult English language learning opportunities are critical because 60 percent are foreign born and many are limited English proficient. With this in mind, the Asian American Justice Center launched an ambitious project to promote English language learning (aka ESL or ESOL) for adults and ...
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President Obama Urges Congress to Push Forward Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation

Release Date: 1-Jul-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Immigration
Today, President Obama called on Congress to address the urgent need to fix our broken immigration system. The Asian American Justice Center, Asian Law Caucus, Asian Pacific American Legal Center and Asian American Institute—all members of the new Asian American Center for Advancing Justice—welcomed the president’s renewed push to get comprehensive immigration reform passed this year.
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Leading Asian American Civil Rights Organizations Announce New Shared Brand at the 2010 Advancing Justice Conference

Release Date: 24-Jun-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Shared Brand
Four leading Asian American civil rights organizations announced during their annual conference today that they are formally affiliating under a new name, Asian American Center for Advancing Justice.
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Asian American Civil Rights Organizations Oppose Arizona’s New Anti-Immigrant Law in National Day of Action

Release Date: 28-May-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Immigration
On Saturday, May 29, tens of thousands of community members and advocates will participate in the National Day of Action Against SB 1070, both in Arizona and in solidarity actions nationwide. The Asian American Justice Center, Asian Law Caucus, Asian American Institute and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California will join civil and human rights advocates across the country in demanding an end to SB 1070, an anti-immigrant ...
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The Impact of Arizona’s New Immigration Law on Asian Americans

Release Date: 25-May-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Immigration
Last week, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) and Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), members of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, jointly filed a federal lawsuit with other civil rights groups to challenge SB 1070, Arizona’s unconstitutional anti-immigrant law that requires police to demand "papers" from people they stop that they “reasonably suspect” are undocumented.
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Asian American Civil Rights Groups Announce Intent to Join National Civil Rights Groups in Challenge to Anti-Immigrant Arizona Law

Release Date: 6-May-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Immigration
Leaders of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) announced today that their organizations will jointly challenge SB 1070, a sweeping and profoundly anti-immigrant piece of state legislation that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law April 23.
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Asian American Justice Center Welcomes Effort by Senate Leadership to Jump Start the Legislative Process on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Release Date: 29-Apr-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Immigration
WASHINGTON—Today Democratic Sens. Harry Reid (Nev.), Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Robert Menendez (N.J.), joined by Sens. Durbin (Ill.), Feinstein (Calif.) and Leahy (Vt.), released a framework for bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation. This serious invitation to Republicans to negotiate is a step forward in the immigration reform debate— something the country desperately needs as community breakdown in Arizona ...
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White House Task Force on Minority Contracting Good for AAPIs

Release Date: 29-Apr-10
Author or Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Affirmative Action
Asian American leaders thank President Obama for signing an executive order that will benefit Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and are excited about the opportunities a new task force will bring AAPI business owners.
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AAJC Condemns Passage of Anti-Immigrant Arizona Law

Release Date: 23-Apr-10
Author or Contact: Nicole Duran
Category:  What's New?  Subcategory:  Immigration
The Asian American Justice Center is extremely disappointed that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has put politics above the Constitution by signing an unnecessarily harsh, xenophobic state law that will do nothing to make Arizonans safer and everything to make people of color feel unwelcome.
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