FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 13, 2017 Contact: Sam Yu, syu@nakasec.org AAPI Mother Speaks at Press Conference as Parent of DACA-mented Child Washington D.C. – On December 13, 2017, Hee Kim, a community leader with Korean Resource Center (KRC), spoke at…
Community leaders from NAKASEC participated in a series of events to stress the urgency to Congress to pass a clean DREAM Act before the end of the year.
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Senate Democrats are warning that they will not accept a plan by House conservatives to pair a full year of defense funding with a short-term fix for other programs. “We write to express our concern with reports that the House…
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Check out this wonderful video created by UPLIFT featuring our directly impacted AAPI young people. 1 out of every 7 AAPI immigrants is undocumented and there are about 11.7 AAPI undocumented immigrants within the United States. The time for Congress…
AAPI community members visited Senator Schumer’s office to ask for a stronger commitment to passing a clean DREAM Act this year in his role as Democratic Minority Leader.
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Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Dreamers are staging a “Sing-In” at Senator Chuck Schumer’s Washington D.C. office today, Thursday December 7th. We are singing DREAM Act Carols to create urgency for a clean DREAM Act by Christmas. For a clean…
(To the Tune of Deck the Halls) DACA calls now for replacing. Fa la la la… Legal dangers we are facing. Fa la la la… We have to come to plead in chorus. Fa la la la la… Make a…
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Contact: Sam Yu, syu@nakasec.org Close to 200 Immigrants and Advocates Converge on Capitol Hill for Civil Disobedience in Support of a clean DREAM Act and TPS Washington DC – Nearly 5,000 undocumented young people, immigrant rights advocates, and faith leaders…
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Asian-American and black activists took to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, calling on Congress to move quickly to address immigration reform. An estimated 150 protesters, led by nonprofit UndocuBlack Network and Asian-American coalition AAPI Immigrant Rights Organizing Table, rallied to ask…
Contact: Sam Yu syu@nakasec.org, Kelsea Wilkerson Kelsea@megaphonestrategies.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – Close to 150 immigrants and advocates from Black and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities came together in Washington, D.C. for a day of action on immigration. The two groups,…