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Advancing Justice-LA condemns the United States House of Representatives’ vote (217-213) to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The AHCA would take away access to affordable and quality...
Today, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA) joined a coalition of over 100 organizations rallying against policies and rhetoric by the current administration that threaten families, communities, and the nation’s values of justice, fairness, and equality. Today’s Los Angeles May Day march is expected to be one...
On the 25th Anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest - or Sa-I-Gu (“4/29” in Korean) - Advancing Justice-LA calls for new efforts to improve policing practices, race relations and racial injustice, and economic opportunities for all individuals, especially low-income community members. Advancing Justice-LA commemorates the day a jury’s...
U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick issued a nationwide preliminary injunction yesterday blocking the Trump administration from carrying out provisions in a January 25th executive order that threaten to cut federal grants to local and state governments that have been deemed to be “sanctuary jurisdictions.”
After the election, Advancing Justice - Los Angeles witnessed a surge of clients interested in becoming U.S. citizens. Last month, temporary staff were hired to meet the demand and support expanding naturalization assistance to Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) immigrants living in Los Angeles County. Further, with anti-immigrant...
Advancing Justice, alongside a diverse group of civil rights, civil liberties, and community-based organizations, have signed on to a comprehensive letter to the U.S. Customs And Border Protection (CBP) condemning their proposal to collect social media identifiers from visitors from China. In light of Muslim Ban border policies that have been...
On April 4, 2017, Angelenos in the 34th Congressional District participated in a special election to fill the seat left vacant by Xavier Becerra. Unfortunately, before the election, some Korean-speaking voters received the wrong sample ballot because the wrong batch of sample...
In light of growing anti-immigrant sentiment across the country, all immigrants regardless of current legal status are encouraged to protect themselves by seeking comprehensive immigration screenings if undocumented and applying for citizenship if eligible (green card holder). To...
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