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We hosted a press conference in Seattle Washington to formally launch our Journey to Justice Bike Tour to demand a clear pathway to citizenship for all non-citizens who have been denied this opportunity including all 11 million undocumented immigrants.
To Josh Collins and his wife, Jessica Salazar Collins, something seemed off about the Bank of America mailer.
They had each banked with the company since the early 2000s, and the couple from outside Kansas City was surprised to find the letter from their bank four to six weeks ago. The font looked altered. The bank’s logo looked “weird.” The paper wasn’t glossy, but instead looked as if it had just come off a black-and-white photocopy machine.
From Friday, July 20 to Sunday, July 22, undocumented young people, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients, and community leaders from the Black and Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) immigrant communities convened in the greater Los Angeles area for a three-day long conference. This conference, titled Woori Ujima, woori meaning “our” in Korean and ujima meaning “collective work and responsibility” in Swahili, was spearheaded by the UndocuBlack Network and NAKASEC & Affiliates, KRC and Hana Center. The conference was held in Los Angeles, which was the location where the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest took place, also called Los Angeles Uprising in recognition of its nature as protest against police brutality against black people - specifically the beating of Rodney King, as well as a history of violence and repression against people of color.
For those who have DACA, renew your DACA now even if it expires next year. DO NOT WAIT. Call the Korean Resource Center for more information or to make an appointment. KRC provides free legal consultation and financial aid to assist with your USCIS filing fee of $495
The affirmative action debate is shifting again, with new faces but old arguments. The claim? Affirmative action in college admissions hurts Asian Americans, especially at elite universities like Harvard. The story is not as simple as some commentators suggest. If admissions officers exhibited unconscious or conscious bias against Asian Americans, then this must be addressed. But even so, it is important to recognize that the problem would be racism, not affirmative action. To conflate the two represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the issues. It is also part of a pattern: Over the past few decades, challenges to anti-Asian bias have repeatedly been appropriated and reframed by opponents of affirmative action.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected the bulk of a Trump administration demand to block three California sanctuary laws, allowing the state to keep in place its most significant legislative measures aimed at countering President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Sacramento-based U.S. District Court Judge John Mendez rejected, for now, the Justice Department’s drive to halt a California law that limits the kinds of immigration-related information state and local law enforcement can share with federal officials. The judge also declined DOJ’s request to block another law guaranteeing California officials certain information about local and privately run jails that hold immigration detainees in the Golden State.
The Trump Administration is breaking up families. It’s happening at our borders, at churches, schools, and workplaces. At the core of who we are as Americans is our love of country and family. From the border to our neighborhoods, we must not only ask “where are the children” but how we as nation stand up against a government forcibly breaking up families. KRC will join the day of action that’s happening all across the nation on June 30th to tell Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their parents.
At a heated meeting at City Hall, Los Angeles lawmakers pressed forward Friday with a plan to set up emergency shelters for homeless people across the city, voting unanimously to start assessing possible sites in Koreatown, Venice, Hollywood, Harvard Heights and the Westside.
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris was in San Diego County Friday to visit an immigration facility in Otay Mesa. As part of her tour of the Otay Mesa Immigration and Detention Facility, Harris met with migrant mothers who have been separated from their children, according to officials with her office. After the tour, Harris and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties held a rally outside the detention facility. The event kicks off a weekend of regional demonstrations.
On Friday, June 22, 2018, KRC mobilized 60 Asian Americans from Los Angeles Koreatown and various Orange County cities to the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. The contingent joined the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, CHIRLA, alongside other partner organizations for a rally and press conference to denounce the Trump administration’s cruel separation and detention of families seeking refuge in the United States. This event kicks off a weekend of demonstrations occurring in the region as outrage spreads.