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Immigrant Rights
07-08-2018
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.
07-05-2018
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.
06-29-2018
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.
06-22-2018
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.
06-22-2018
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.
06-21-2018
We are appalled by the separation of over 2,300 children in the short time since the enactment of the Trump administration's new zero tolerance policy. While this policy was rescinded yesterday by executive order, the creation of what essentially are family jails is not a humane alternative. We demand that the administration ensure the immediate and safe return of the children already separated back to their parents and that racist attacks on immigrant communities stop. Two immigration bills that will harm the family-based immigration system - Goodlatte's Securing America's Future Act and Paul Ryan and Donald Trump's Border Security and Immigration Reform Act - will likely be voted on today: Call your Congressmember now!
06-18-2018
On June 14th, over 200 immigrant rights leaders and allies gathered at Morrison Park in Santa Ana to rally and march to the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange to demand that the Orange County Board of Supervisors keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) out of Orange County and end immigrant detention at Theo Lacy.
06-15-2018
Passionate about immigrant rights and wanna get fit? Join KRC, NAKASEC, and HANA Center this fall as for the #Journey2Justice Bike Tour from Seattle to San Diego to fight for #Citizenship4All! Riders can join for the whole trip or just for one day. We're also seeking lawyers and health professionals who can volunteer with us so check all the opportunities on the website. Sign up today at godreamriders.org.
06-11-2018
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions has ordered immigration judges to stop granting asylum to most victims of domestic abuse and gang violence, a move that would block tens of thousands of people, especially women, from seeking refuge in America. The attorney general’s decision forms a key part of a broader Trump administration effort to restrict immigration and discourage asylum seekers from coming to the U.S. The administration has also stripped various legal rights from detainees, and has been separating families detained by immigration agents.