📣NEW: ALC is part of a new group of labor leaders, voting rights activists & organizers that has formed to defend our democracy and protect your right to vote.
Learn more about the California Democracy Partnership and its mission: www.cademocracypartnership.org
We are seeking motivated & skilled movement individuals to join our team of advocates, attorneys, and strategists:
☑️ Digital Strategy Manager
☑️ Senior Staff Attorney, Immigrant Justice
☑️ Housing Rights Program Director
Learn more & apply: bit.ly/alcjobs
File Your Taxes With an ITIN?
ICE cannot rely on any of the tax-sharing agreements that it entered into with the IRS or use any information that it already received from the IRS.
What We Know Right Now About the IRS-ICE Data Agreement ⬇️
www.kqed.org/news/1207344...
ALC's 54th Anniversary Gala is just weeks away, and we are working around the clock to bring you an unforgettable evening—one that celebrates our community and creates an uplifting space to gather.
Purchase a ticket or sign up to be a sponsor: bit.ly/alc54-gala
VICTORY: A federal court has blocked ICE’s use of private tax-related data from the IRS!
The decision is a win for taxpayers nationwide who have weighed whether filing their taxes exposes them to potential ICE arrest, detention, and deportation.
📰 bit.ly/infosharing-win
Are you a worker in California who wants to learn about your rights?
Find our resources on unpaid wages, overtime, unemployment insurance benefits, wrongful termination, retaliation, discrimination/harassment, health and safety, and more:
www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resourc...
My latest in the @theguardian.com on how the Trump admins latest immigrant visa ban takes us back to the racial quotas abolished in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Trump admin recently announced a new policy for immigrant visa applicants from 75 countries. What does this freeze on immigrant visas mean? Will the pause affect applicants or people who currently have an immigrant visa?
Learn more in our updated explainer: bit.ly/alc-ban-kyr
"This settlement reaffirms that no one should be singled out by police because of their race... Asian American community members of Siskiyou County came together and won their fight to live their lives without fear of being racially profiled."
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NEW: ALC & @sikhcoalition.bsky.social File Lawsuit Against CA's Cancellation of Commercial Driver’s Licenses
The lawsuit seeks to halt the CA DMV cancellation of 20,000 commercial licenses that would result in mass work stoppages beginning January 5.
Read more: bit.ly/cdl-dmv-lit
UPDATE: Trump has placed a hold on certain asylum and greencard applications.
Our new resource page provides general information explaining the new USCIS policy: www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resourc...
" We want answers to why these deportations are happening," Villarosa said. "The U.S. made this promise of refugee resettlement and it was broken."
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
"[A new poll has] found bipartisan support for ensuring that immigrants facing deportation receive due process, including ones with criminal records."
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
Join us for a free community information session on the latest policy updates affecting immigrant commercial drivers in California. This online information session is in English with Spanish interpretation.
Register for the Zoom meeting at: bit.ly/catruckers-kyr
We've sued DHS & State Dept alongside Asian American refugee communities to demand answers on deportation practices
Our communities are seeking accountability after ICE targets beloved community members for deportation to Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam.
bit.ly/sea-foia
A graphic with alternating gold and deep blue waves. Text reads: Solidarity Is This podcast - a conversation about solidarity within and across communities, November 2025. The Building Movement Project and SolidarityIs logos is in the bottom right corner, and the podcast co-host Deepa Iyer is pictured alongside a photo of guest Jamie Beran from Bend the Arc.
🎧️ NEW on the Solidarity Is This podcast!
In this episode with co-host @deepaiyer.bsky.social, @jamieberan.bsky.social from @bendthearc.bsky.social shares messaging and practices that build solidarity within and outside Jewish communities.
Show & notes here: www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...
"Detainees at an immigration detention center in California City have sued ICE, alleging the facility is polluted by sewage leaks, infested with bugs and is denying people access to food, water and their lawyers." Read more:
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
"The broader issue isn’t one person, 'but rather a system of impunity and abuse. The reports make it clear that other staff were aware of what was going on and actually were assisting in making it happen.'" - Lee Ann Felder-Heim, ALC
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
The broader issue isn’t one person, “but rather a system of impunity and abuse. The reports make it clear that other staff were aware of what was going on and actually were assisting in making it happen.” - Lee Ann Felder-Heim, ALC
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Join us for an opening reception of 'Our Language, Our Story' -- an exhibition by Joyce Xi, Galeria de la Raza, and ALC that explores what it means to live life in your own language.
Saturday, Oct. 18 | 3-6pm
🎟️ bit.ly/olos-opening
About the project: bit.ly/exhibit-olos
California's Special Election is coming up on November 4, 2025!
Early voting has already begun - check with your local elections office or look up voting locations at caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov.
Find ALC's resources and more information on the Election at: bit.ly/alc-nov4election
Join us for an opening reception of 'Our Language, Our Story' -- an exhibition by Joyce Xi, Galeria de la Raza, and ALC that explores what it means to live life in your own language.
Saturday, Oct. 18 | 3-6pm
🎟️ bit.ly/olos-opening
About the project: bit.ly/exhibit-olos
"We had to file this case to remind both agencies that our confidentiality laws apply to them both and that their sharing is unlawful."
Read about the lawsuit we filed with partners to block IRS & SSA from sharing taxpayer information with ICE:
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
"While so many Americans watched in horror at ICE's military-like raids this summer, US cruelty and violence towards immigrants is nothing new, from the Chinese Exclusion Act to the mass deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
California is home to over 6.4 million limited English proficient individuals who face numerous challenges, including on the ability to exercise their fundamental right to vote & participate in our democracy.
Our new report with recommendations: bit.ly/forgingahead-report
Join us and AAPI Force on Thursday 8/28 from 5:30-7:30pm for an online teach in on how how Asian American communities have been targeted by and resist ICE terror.
Sign up at: bit.ly/aapiforceef-teachin
Last month, ICE agents arrested and detained around a dozen Hmong refugees in Detroit.
“We are seeing folks who are anchors of their communities, beloved family members, stripped from their families, often after decades of living peacefully in their communities.”
wdet.org/2025/08/19/h...
Camalah translates ballots for her family members because Arabic ballots are unavailable in their county.
All Californians, no matter what languages they use, deserve to understand our ballots, so they can fully participate in our democracy. #Section203
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Join us this August as we commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act, and spotlight the ongoing movement for language justice and inclusion in our U.S. Democracy.
Use this link to register🔗: bit.ly/Section203at50
