Press Conference and Presentation of Border Wall of Remembrance and Resistance” on Monday, Oct. 16th at Union Square
NEW YORK UNITED FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
In the face of recent anti-immigrant legislation passed by Congress, New York United for Immigrant Rights (NYUIR)—a coalition of more than 60 im...
Multilingual Asian American Exit Poll Survey Expands in Eight States
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 32-year-old civil rights group, today announced the details of its Election Protection 2006 efforts on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7. More than 625 attorneys, law...
New York—The Chinese Staff and Workers Association and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced today a settlement of a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Labor (DOL). The federal lawsuit (Chinese Staff and Workers Association v. New York State Department ...
Arguments Highlight the Need for Racially Integrated Classrooms
Washington, D.C.—Today, the civil rights groups Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), with educational and advocacy groups nationwide, filed amicus briefs in the United State...
Ground Zero clean-up workers, Lower Manhattan residents and other workers devastated by the toxic fallout of 9/11 speak out at Ground Zero
For Immediate Release
Contact: Karah Newton (212) 358-0295
WHAT: Rally and Press Conference where hundreds of Ground Zero clean-up workers, Lower East Side and...
We, the undersigned organizations, issue this public statement to express our deep concerns about the recent incidents in Edison, New Jersey that have led to the arrest of an Indian man at a public rally, and have strained tensions in Edison among members of the South Asian community, the Edison com...
For 11-Hour Days, Nearly No Overtime and Hundreds in Unpaid Wages
New York—Mr. Xiao Wei Lu, an immigrant from China, has received $1,400 from his former employer, a Brooklyn-based Chinese food manufacturing company, in a settlement reached by his attorney Steven Choi of the Asian American Legal Def...
Flushing, NY—With placards reading “Pay the unpaid wages!” and “Shame on you, Chong Min Mun,” seven former employees of the closed Flushing banquet hall Young Vin Kwan and its parent company, Seoul Plaza Ltd., protested outside the office of owner Chong Min Mun today in Flushing, Queens. Mr. Mun owe...
Washington, D.C.–Today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. The Act extends vital protections for minority voters under the Voting Rights Act for twenty-five years, through 203...
New York—Tomorrow, the civil rights group Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank, will sponsor an outreach event to educate Asian Americans about their legal rights and register new voters. Assistance will be provided in English, Cant...
Today, the Senate passed the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 (S. 2703), which would extend the Voting Rights Acts expiring provisions for twenty-five years, through 2032.
Margaret Fung, Executive Director of the Asian...
Statement by AALDEF Executive Director Margaret Fung
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today expressed its disappointment with the announcement by the House Republican leadership to cancel a vote this week on reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (H.R. 9, the Fannie Lo...
AALDEF Sends Nearly 1,000 Postcards from 15 States to Lead Officals
As the House of Representatives takes up Voting Rights Act legislation this week, 114 national and local Asian American and other civil rights organizations have endorsed a letter to Congress supporting bipartisan legislation to re...
Calls on Congress to Renew Voting Rights Act Language Assistance and Other Key Provisions
Washington, DC—Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) executive director Margaret Fung will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Tuesday, June 13th at 9:30 a.m., on the contin...
2005 Elections Data Includes Language Assistance, Party Enrollment, and Voting Barriers
In Fort Lee, NJ, days before the New Jersey primaries, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released the results of its exit poll of Asian American voters from the 2005 general elec...
The convoluted debate in the Senate over comprehensive immigration reform has made one thing abundantly clear: we must oppose passage of the Hagel-Martinez bill (S. 2611).
The Hagel-Martinez bill is neither reform nor comprehensive policy for immigration. As we suspected, the political climate of t...
Plan Completely Fails to Uphold Bold New Statutory Voter Rights to Remedy the Loss of Votes and Other Problems in Past Elections
Today in Albany, a group of voter-eligible citizens—which includes individuals with various disabilities and limited-English-proficient Asian American voters—joined a bro...
AALDEF To Discuss Legal Avenues for Individuals Coerced into Debt Bondage
New York—A teenage labor trafficking survivor from China will be able to stay in the U.S., attend public school, be reunited with her family, and receive work authorization after her petition for a T Visa was recently approve...
New York, NY—Seventy national and local Asian American and other civil rights organizations and advocates endorsed a letter to Congress supporting bipartisan legislation introduced today to renew the expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act. The letter, circulated by the Asian American Legal Def...
Advocates Address Concerns in Immigration Reform Debate
New York—Thirty passengers from the freighter Golden Venture today called on President Bush to take action that would grant them permanent legal residence in the US. Their appeal comes 13 years after the ill-fated ship ran aground off New York...
