An essential element of the American Dream is ensuring that each generation has greater opportunities than the last. What, then, do we make of a generation that can earn more than their parents, but still can't seem to climb the economic ladder?
As the Trump Administration takes the unprecedented action of de-legalizing nearly a million residents, a Clean DREAM Act with TPS is urgent—leaders of both parties in Congress must act.
Trump’s recent comments against immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and Africa are indeed shocking but remember, they are not inconsistent with his policies.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard our Ohio voter purge case, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute. At issue in the case is Ohio’s Supplemental Process, an unjust practice of removing infrequent voters from its registration rolls.
The recent State of the Union address showcased the particular brand of phony populism that Americans are coming to know all too well.
It’s a populism that demonizes immigrants as the main threat to struggling workers. It’s a populism that loudly claims credit for lowering African American unemployment.
On March 12, 2018, I joined CASA Virginia Director Michelle La Rue and Sookyung Oh of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium for a televised discussion about state and local advocacy for immigrant rights in Virginia. Together, our efforts have secured an important victory for the community: the termination of a voluntary agreement between Fairfax County and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under which the county detained people for ICE.
