On Feb. 12, 2021, AALDEF submitted a letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, expressing support for H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The Commission would prompt a national conversation about the legacy of slavery upon A...
Corky Lee, the “Unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate” and a friend to AALDEF for more than four decades, passed away on January 27 from Covid-19 complications at age 73. More than a man with a camera, he was a historian with a cyclopedic knowledge of people and events in Asian American co...
Today, President Joe Biden issued a Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
AALDEF issued the following statement:
With more than 2,800 reported anti-Asian hate incidents since the start of the Covi...
Sign up for our virtual legal clinic on Thursday, January 28, 2021 and get the latest updates on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Biden’s proposed new immigration bill, and an initial screening to see if you’re eligible for DACA!
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2021, 6 pm - 9:30 pm ET
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New York, NY - According to preliminary results of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s (AALDEF) multilingual exit poll on Jan. 5, 2021, Asian American voters in Georgia favored Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock (64%) and Jon Ossoff (68%) over their Republican challengers Kelly ...
Join us on Monday, Dec. 21 at 6 pm for our virtual immigration clinic with RAISE. (Revolutionizing Asian American Stories on the East Coast). AALDEF attorneys will share important updates about the latest court orders in DACA lawsuits and conduct screenings for initial DACA requests. Register here f...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (“AALDEF”) applauds the federal district court’s Dec. 4, 2020 order in Batalla Vidal v. Wolf, which vacated the Department of Homeland Security’s July 2020 memorandum (“Wolf memo”) and reinstated the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DAC...
On January 5, 2021, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), in partnership with the Center for Pan Asian Community Service (CPACS), will conduct a nonpartisan multilingual exit poll to provide a snapshot of voting patterns, candidate preferences, party enrollment, and issues of...
On #GivingTuesday, a day of global giving, we hope you will invest in change for a better future.
2020 has been a challenging year for all of us. As we approach the winter months and an uptick in coronavirus cases, Asian immigrant workers are struggling to survive and small business owners are wond...
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 6 pm ET for our monthly immigration and DACA renewal virtual legal clinic. Get updates on immigration law and the New York federal court’s recent DACA decision. Register here: bit.ly/37TuhLl
For more information, contact:
Annie Wang
Director, Immigration Justice Proj...
New York, NY – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released new data from its exit poll of 5,424 Asian American voters in 13 states and Washington, DC, noting the importance of the Asian American vote in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada.
AALDEF Executive Di...
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New York, NY – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released preliminary results of its nonpartisan multilingual exit poll of more than 5,000 Asian American voters in the November 3, 2020 Presidential ...
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New York, NY – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will dispatch close to 400 attorneys and volunteers to document voter problems and the availabil...
AALDEF has compiled data for an absentee ballot chart listing requirements for all 50 states and DC. For details regarding your state, use the magnifying glass (top right-hand corner of chart) and type in your state.
*Ballot requirement info was taken from https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-an...
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 6pm for our monthly immigration and DACA renewal virtual legal clinic. We’ll keep you up to date on the latest immigration updates. Register in advance: https://bit.ly/37TuhLl
For more information, contact:
Annie Wang
Director, Immigrant Justice Project
awang@aaldef....
Our democracy is at stake in the 2020 presidential election. We need your help to ensure that Asian Americans can exercise their fundamental right to vote.
On November 3, AALDEF will dispatch attorneys and volunteers to polling places across the country to document voter problems and the availabili...
On Tuesday, September 22, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will be in Manhattan’s Chinatown to celebrate National Voter Registration Day and to assist Asian Americans to register and vote in the 2020 elections.
AALDEF, a community partner of National Voter Registration D...
Fay Chew Matsuda, a social worker, community activist, and former director of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MOCA) in Manhattan’s Chinatown, died on July 24, 2020 at the age of 71. We send our condolences to her husband, Karl; her daughter Amy; and the Chew and Matsuda families.
Fay serve...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) joined civil rights and pro-immigrant advocacy groups in applauding today’s U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 decision in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California that ruled in favor of hundreds of thousands of immig...
Hundreds of thousands of people across the country have protested the killing of George Floyd, an African American man, by four Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020. Asian Americans have shown their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement by calling for racial justice and an end to po...
