APA Press Conferences and Action Week

Monday Press Conference on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Please join us for a press conference on August 17, held simultaneously with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, to call for comprehensive immigration reform and to launch the National API Week of Action. This press conference will highlight the API perspective on this issue, and shed light on how the immigration system affects API immigrants and their families.

WHO:              API immigration advocates and community members

WHEN:            August 17 at 11am-12pm

WHERE:          ACLU of Northern California 39 Drumm Street San Francisco, California 94111

        and

                        Unity Park in Historic Filipinotown
                       1660 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
                       (located at Beverly Blvd. & Union Ave.)

WHY:              To uplift API voices in the national debate on comprehensive
                       immigration reform and to kick off the API National Week of
                       Action (August 17-22).

We need your presence there to raise the profile of APIs in the immigration reform debate! This is a hot topic in Congress that affects all of us.

Asian American Week of Action Aug. 17-24

http://www.advancingequality.org/en/art/19/

Hundreds of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders will spend the week of Aug. 17-24 attending town hall meetings, sending postcards to Congress and visiting lawmakers, all in an effort to persuade Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation this year.

The effort will begin Aug. 14 in Boston and continue into September. People will share their personal stories about how our outdated immigration policies adversely affect their families, businesses and communities.

Town hall meetings will be held in Chicago and New Jersey while activists in Los Angeles will hold a press conference. Anyone concerned about immigration policy is encouraged to submit letters to the editor, write a member of Congress, or participate in the post card campaign.

That campaign will focus specifically on the need to reform the family immigration system as part of the broader immigration overhaul.

The Asian American Justice Center will also release a brochure to help people explain why the issue is so critical that will be available in Chinese, Hindi, Korean and Vietnamese in addition to English.

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