Trump's inhumane, third-country deportations have already left hundreds stranded in Central America and Africa. We can't turn a blind eye as he continues to disappear vulnerable people to other parts of the world, with no regard for their safety or lives.
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The Trump regime can't force Batra back to her home country because of humanitarian protections for victims of religious and ethnic persecution.
Instead, Batra's lawyer fears that she will be deported to a country she's never been to.
As a teenager, Meenu Batra sought refuge in the U.S. after fleeing deadly, anti-Sikh riots in India. She built a new life in Texas, where she's raising her four children and supports local South Asian communities as a court interpreter.
But now Batra faces an uncertain future in ICE detention. 🧵⬇️
With the storm hitting the hardest on the Northern Mariana Islands, local communities are counting on our help.
Check out our resource list to learn how you can support relief efforts now: stopaapihate.org/collection/t...
Pacific Islanders have long suffered under colonization, militarization, and forced displacement.
Climate change makes matters even worse: The Pacific islands account for 0.03% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but their people bear the heaviest burden of disasters like Typhoon Sinlaku.
This week, Super Typhoon Sinlaku made landfall on the U.S. territories of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam — knocking down power lines, flooding homes, and blocking roads.
Our hearts are with the thousands of people who call these islands home, including the AAPI family members of our team. 🧵⬇️
This January, Thao was dragged out of his home by federal agents in below-freezing temperatures. He and other Hmong Americans in Minnesota are still recovering from the physical and mental toll of ICE's terror campaign in their cities.
Read their stories and learn how to show them support. ⬇️
ICE's violent occupation of Minnesota showed us what happens when federal power goes unchecked.
But now, county officials are working to hold ICE accountable — including investigating the arrest of Hmong American ChongLy "Scott" Thao as a possible kidnapping. 🧵⬇️
🕯️Today, we join sangat members in Indianapolis and Sikhs nationwide to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the April 15, 2021, mass shooting at a FedEx ground facility where eight individuals, including four Sikhs, were killed.
Norman's family history reminds us that racial scapegoating and xenophobia is nothing new, and we can't afford to go back to the darkest chapters of our country's history.
His mother was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into U.S. concentration camps during World War II — all because the government believed their ethnicity made them "enemies" of the U.S.
His father is descendant from Wong Kim Ark: The Chinese American man whose SCOTUS case helped affirm birthright citizenship for all U.S. born children over a hundred years ago.
If SCOTUS allows Trump's birthright citizenship EO to proceed, it could create a underclass of people without citizenship, access to public education, social benefits, or voting rights.
For Norman Wong, being treated as a second-class citizen is not a hypothetical thing. It's his family history.
While the cause of Bui's death is unclear, we're disgusted by the ongoing medical neglect, unsanitary conditions, and abuse reported at ICE's facilities as they continue to operate with no accountability. We send our condolences to Bui's family & call on our leaders to stop ICE's inhumane practices.
Tuan Van Bui — a Vietnamese man who's called the U.S. home since 1990 — died at an ICE facility in Indiana on April 1. This marks the 46th death — 11th of an Asian person — to occur in ICE's horrific concentration camps since Trump returned to the White House in 2025. 🧵⬇️
Join us by calling on Congress to support the Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act, which will help ensure refugees like Lothirath can stay in the U.S. where they belong.
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But today, their lives are at risk again as Trump aggressively targets them for deportation.
More than 2,000 Southeast Asian refugees have been deported since Trump's return to the White House. We can't afford any more.
Lothirath is one of the more than 1.2 million Southeast Asian refugees who were welcomed to the U.S. between 1975 and 2008. After fleeing genocide and violence tied to U.S. military interventions in their home countries, they were resettled in the U.S. so they could have a fresh start.
Lothirath is now in hospice care to prepare for the end of his life — but because of Trump's cruel, anti-immigrant agenda, he is also at risk of deportation.
During ICE's occupation of Minnesota, agents took Oudone Lothraith — a Laotian man battling cancer — from his home and forced him into a detention center in Texas. He missed chemotherapy sessions and received no medical care, causing his cancer to spread and his chances of survival to plummet.
The data is clear: Our communities are fed up with Trump's anti-immigrant attacks, and we refuse to stay silent as he tries to expand this cruel witch hunt.
This is no surprise. Half of A/PI adults in the U.S. said they or someone they know was negatively impacted by Trump's anti-immigrant agenda in the past year, according to our survey conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago.
Many AA/PI families feel the impacts of Trump's anti-immigrant agenda — including the fear of being racially profiled by ICE, and the trauma of being wrongfully detained and deported.
In fact, most AA/PI adults think Trump has gone too far and is doing more harm than good on immigration. ⬇️
Norman Wong, a descendant of Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese American whose Supreme Court citizenship case affirmed birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, shares why protecting birthright citizenship matters.
Let's call Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship exactly what it is: A racist attack on our constitutional rights, designed to weaken the power of Asian and other communities of color for generations to come.
This is what Trump wants to eliminate. If he succeeds, children wouldn't just be denied citizenship. They also lose educational and economic opportunities, and the right to vote.
Born in LA's Koreatown to immigrant parents, Cynthia saw firsthand how birthright citizenship allowed families to lay roots in the U.S. — creating multicultural communities that are strengthened by the presence and contributions of immigrants.
If Trump's attack on birthright citizenship succeeds, how will it affect Asian communities?
According to our co-founder and co-director, Cynthia Choi, it would completely upend the lives of immigrant families like her own.
They would also be denied voting rights — shrinking the size and strength of Asian American political power for generations to come.
We cannot let this happen. The Constitution — not the cruel agenda of one President — decides who is a citizen.
Without birthright citizenship, many of these children would be born stateless with limited freedoms and limited opportunities, and be vulnerable to immigration enforcement in the only country they've ever known.
