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...
For the June 2 primary elections, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) partnered with Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition (SEAMAAC) to monitor several poll sites in South Philadelphia The election was conducted amidst uncertainty and heightened anxiety du...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) stands in solidarity with communities across the country protesting against police violence and the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
For too many decades, communities of color have been the targets of racist violence...
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and 44 Asian American groups and higher education faculty filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston to reject the claims that Harvard’s admissions policies intentionally discriminate agai...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) condemns the persistent use of the phrase “Chinese virus” by the president, elected officials, and media outlets to describe Covid-19 and the coronavirus. When President Trump cites the “Chinese virus” as the source of the current health a...
New York City…Today, a New York Supreme Court justice ruled that the developers’ plans for four high-rise towers in Manhattan’s Chinatown and the Lower East Side violate the New York City Zoning Resolution and nullified the approvals needed for the proposed projects.
The case, Lower East Side Organ...
New Rule Threatens Family-Sponsored Permanent Resident Status for Asian American Families Who Have Used Certain Essential Benefits
New York City…After the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted the nationwide stay on implementation of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’s final publi...
On December 27, 2019, AALDEF submitted a comment opposing the fee schedule proposed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which would increase fees for adjustment of status, asylum, DACA renewals, and naturalization and also eliminate fee waivers. These proposed changes would adverse...
On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, at 6 pm, join AALDEF and Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS) for a special presentation on The Asian American Vote in Georgia in the 2018 midterm elections.
At the presentation, learn more about how Asian Americans voted in Georgia gubernatorial, senator...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released preliminary results of its nonpartisan exit poll of more than 250 Asian American voters in the Nov. 16, 2019 gubernatorial election in Louisiana. Asian Americans, primarily Vietnamese Americans, strongly favored the Republic...
Following the oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court today over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) urges the Court to consider this case as one about people’s lives: those of DACA recipients, their lov...
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated cases that will determine whether the administration can end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which has provided relief from deportation for more than 800,000 undocumented youth who have lived most of the...
New York City… The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released preliminary results of its nonpartisan exit poll of more than 500 Asian American voters in the Nov. 5, 2019 elections in Virginia, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Asian Americans strongly favored Democratic candidate...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will conduct a nonpartisan multilingual exit poll to get a snapshot of Asian American candidate preferences, party enrollment, and issues of significance to Asian American voters in Lou...
A federal judge halted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing its controversial “public charge” rule, a policy change that advocacy groups assert would have disproportionately blocked immigrants of color from obtaining permanent resident status and inhibited immigrant workers an...
Today, AALDEF submitted testimony to the New York State Senate Internet and Technology Committee, which held a hearing to “identify the needs of workers and employers operating outside the traditional employee-employer dynamic and determine possible legislative avenues.” AALDEF called for the equal ...
On September 10 and October 10, 2019, AALDEF Democracy Program attorney Patricia Yan testified at public hearings in Austin and Dallas organized by the Texas House Redistricting Committee, urging the state to keep Asian American communities together in new political districts drawn after the 2020 Ce...
The City of Philadelphia has reached an agreement with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) to settle a lawsuit over the City’s 11 P.M. Ordinance. AALDEF, with pro bono counsel Pepper Hamilton LLP, filed this lawsuit, Liu v. City of Philadelphia, on behalf of 23 Chinese takeo...
