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Asian American History
LAPD appoints its first Asian American chief
Dominic Choi was sworn in as the interim chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), making him the first Asian American to hold the ...
Michelle De Pacina
Crime
Smuggler behind deaths of 39 Vietnamese in the UK ordered to pay families
A human trafficker who caused the deaths of dozens of Vietnamese illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom was ordered by a court on Friday t...
Bryan Ke
Business
New research highlights daily health challenges for nail, beauty salon workers
“Training… must be available in the workers’ preferred language and that these employers need to gain buy-in on the importance o...
Ryan General
News
Vivek Ramaswamy says he’ll deport US-born children of illegal immigrants
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will deport children of illegal immigrants even if they are born in the U.S., according to a rece...
Carl Samson
Entertainment
‘I am the child of immigrants’: Mindy Kaling dedicates Norman Lear Award to late mother
After receiving the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Norman Lear Achievement Award on Saturday night, Mindy Kaling dedicated the honor to he...
Government
SSA resolves case of 2 Korean immigrants given the same social security number
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) has resolved an issue regarding two South Korean immigrants who were given the same s...
Fact-checkers say social media companies’ inaction on multilingual fake news fuels racism, threatens democracy
An uptick in misinformation targeting immigrant communities leading up to this year’s midterm elections has multilingual fact-checkers work...
Education
UCLA granted $3 million for study on sexual and reproductive health of Asian immigrant women
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health researchers have been awarded $3 million to study the sexual ...
Khier Casino
More immigrants than ever have become billionaires in the US
Forbes’ recently unveiled World’s Billionaire list for 2022 revealed that a record-number 92 American billionaires are immigrants. Topping...
William Yuk
4 Vietnamese men identified as victims in Oldham mill fire in the UK
The Greater Manchester Police named four Vietnamese men who were believed to have been burned in the Bismark House Mill in Oldham, Greater ...
Media
Majority of Republicans believe immigrants ‘hurt the country and make it a worse place to live,’ says poll
The majority of Republicans believe immigrants are hurting the country, according to a new survey conducted by Fox News. The poll asked pa...
70% of Latino and Asian immigrants in California saw workplace discrimination, UCLA study finds
A new study released on Monday by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) found that 70% of Latino and Asian immigrants believe that...
Jiselle Lee
Opinion
Fruit Cut By Your Asian Parents is Worth a Thousand Words
It’s a quarter past midnight. There are about a million jumbled thoughts racing through my scrambled mind, but one common theme interconnect...
Ruoshan Dong
Gosaeng: An Ode to the Struggle of My Korean Immigrant Parents
I grew up as the child of immigrant parents who, like countless other immigrants, did what they could to provide for their family. Having im...
Sylvia Kim
Asian Immigrants May Be the Easiest Targets in Trump’s Upcoming ICE Raids
The U.S. administration’s plans to commit mass raids of the homes of undocumented immigrants has the Asian community on edge. Undocum...
Meet the Children of Immigrants Who Grew Up in Their Parents’ Chinese Restaurants
A fascinating new feature by BBC Stories sheds light on the children of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong who moved to the United Kingdom in...
L.A. Judge Stops ICE From Conducting Raids on Cambodian Immigrants For Now
A judge in Los Angeles ordered federal immigration officials to temporarily halt any surprise raids on Cambodian immigrants living in the U....
Civil Rights
The U.S. Army is Allegedly Discharging Immigrant Recruits They Promised Citizenship To
The U.S. Army is allegedly discharging some immigrant reservists and recruits who enlisted through the special recruitment program that offe...
Thousands of Vietnamese Immigrants Protected By Treaty Now Targeted By ICE For Deportation
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to deport thousands of Vietnamese immigrants who have been in the U.S. for m...
Editorial Staff
Meet the ‘Crazy Rich Asian’ Teaching Others ‘How to American’
I was first introduced to Jimmy O. Yang after seeing him on HBO’s “Silicon Valley” where he plays Jian-Yang, a Chinese app devel...
Benny Luo
Racist Woman at Starbucks Verbally Assaults Student For Speaking Korean
Annie An, an international student from Seoul, South Korea was getting coffee at a Starbucks in Walnut Creek, California with her tutor Sean...
ICE Releases Asian American Sexual Assault Survivor After Viral Social Media Protest
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released Ny Nourn, the sexual assault survivor it plans to deport to Cambodia, after an extens...
Over 100 Cambodian Immigrants Arrested in Latest ICE Deportation Crackdown
Officers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have arrested more than 100 Cambodian nationals with deportation orders throu...
Armed Robbers Who ‘Terrorized’ Chinese Immigrants in Philadelphia Now Face Up to 70 Years in Prison
A group of Chinese immigrants in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have banded together to stand up against being victimized because of Asian ...
Kyle Encina
Chinese Immigrants are Paying Up to $70,000 to Be Smuggled From Mexico
An increasing number of Chinese nationals crossing the San Diego border from Mexico has been recorded by authorities in the fiscal year endi...
Justin Lin’s Next Film Is About A Chinese Family Prosecuted After The 2008 Mortgage Crisis
Justin Lin is set to direct a drama film based on “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”, a documentary on an immigrant family’s battle for justice....
Why The End of DACA is Much Worse for LGBTQ ‘Dreamers’
With the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program expiring in October, more “Dreamers” are stepping into the light to share the...
Chinese DACA Recipient Who Came to the U.S. For Life-Saving Treatment Now Fears Deportation
A Chinese woman who was brought to the U.S. at age 12 to cure of a rare disorder is now afraid she must leave after the Deferred Action for ...
Asia
Donald Trump Just Screwed Over the Same Immigrants He Swore to Protect
Things are not looking well for the thousands of beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era po...
Asian Americans Are Banding Together to Stop Trump From Abolishing DACA
An Obama-era program, which provides a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation to certain illegal immigrants who enter...
SXSW International Artists Are Freaking Out Over Deportation Threat in Contract
SXSW has apparently threatened international artists with deportation should they engage in performances outside the festival’s scope ...
U.S. Immigration is Now Raiding Asian Restaurants in Mississippi
Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents executed criminal search warrants at eight Asian restaurants in the cities of Jackson, Flowo...
Businesses Across America Are Shutting Down For the Day And It’s Glorious
Today, thousands of people skipped work/school and businesses closed across the country for “A Day Without Immigrants”. The clos...
Here’s What Japanese People Think of Letting Refugees Into Their Country
For a country that is in great need of immigrants to boost its aging society and depleting workforce, Japan has continued with their low acc...
How Two Chinese Immigrants Built a Billion-Dollar Fast-Food Empire More Successful Than In-N-Out
Panda Express, the beloved fast-casual dining restaurant, was founded by Chinese immigrants who believe treating their employees right is th...
Ivana Trump Likes Mexican Immigrants, But Only When They’re Vacuuming Her Living Room
Ivana Trump, 67, is a former fashion model and the first wife of business magnate and Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Sh...