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OpEd: Redefining who gets to be American is dangerous
By Rep. Grace Meng, (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Exceptional. A word that is often used to describe America and rightfully so. In just 250 years, the United States has become a global superpower, pioneered incredible scientific and technological breakthroughs, and built an economy that is the envy of the world. But above all, what sets America apart is that our identity has never been defined by a single factor like race, religion, or ancestry.
Trump’s first 100 days: Promises made, promises broken
[Source] President Trump made lowering costs a central theme of his campaign, but 100 days into his administration, he has yet to deliver on that promise. But don’t just take my word for it. Small business owners in Chinatowns across the country are pleading with the Trump administration to reverse course after it had implemented sweeping tariffs, including a devastating 145% tariff on Chinese goods.
The 'Dobbs' Decision on Abortion Is Hurting People the World Over | Opinion
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The state is not allowing the city to access federal infrastructure dollars for our waterworks Original
New York City’s water infrastructure is some of the most sophisticated in the world, and right now, there’s once-in-a-generation funding available to invest in that infrastructure.
Op-Ed: The Inflation Reduction Act will help to storm-proof Queens
'Quiet hiring': What it means for America’s workforce Quiet hiring has been a tactic utilized by employers for decades but now, companies are leaning on it more than ever in order to weather the uncertain economy.
Op-Ed: The Inflation Reduction Act will help to storm-proof Queens – QNS.com
Recently, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, marking the largest single investment the United States has ever made to preserve our environment and combat climate change. This legislation funds our clean energy future while lowering energy costs and making our communities be able to withstand ever increasing extreme weather events. Recent storms have devastated our communities, and climate change is only exacerbating the frequency of so-called once-in-a-century disasters.
Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act (H.R. 3525)
Add a note about this bill. Your note is for you and will not be shared with anyone. Because you are a member of panel, your positions on legislation and notes below will be shared with the panel administrators. (More Info) To establish the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture, and for other purposes. Sponsor and status Grace Meng Sponsor. Representative for New York's 6th congressional district. Democrat.
What Edtech Can Learn from Covid Vaccines - EdSurge News
Over the past year, many of us have been amazed by the effectiveness of the new COVID-19 vaccines. This development is a success story made possible by decades of careful, measured progress in microbiology and immunology, overseen by certain legal and regulatory structures. The story of how educational technologies (edtech) make their way into our schools is very different.
Putting public health first this school year: NYC needs a remote learning option
By Adriano Espaillat, Grace Meng and Jamaal Bowman New York Daily News | Aug 27, 2021 at 5:00 AM Student wears face mask while doing work at his desk at the Post Road Elementary School in White Plains, N.Y. (Mary Altaffer/AP) It has been a challenging year-and-a-half for millions of Americans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In all aspects of our daily lives, we took measures that we probably never fathomed having to take. And it wasn’t just adults.
Refugee Sanitation Facility Safety Act of 2021 (H.R. 1158)
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It's Time for a Whole-of-Government Approach to Address Period Poverty in the U.S.
Rep. Grace Meng (center) and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf—both at podium—with advocates of the Menstrual Equity for All Act during its initial introduction in Mar 26, 2019. (Twitter) As a member of Congress and as advocates, we share the belief that there is power in leveraging the law to help make healthy, dignified, stigma-free menstruation a reality for all.
AAPI Heritage Month: Safeguarding Asian American inclusion and belonging
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #AAPIMonth May marks Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, a time to commemorate and honor the many contributions that the AAPI community has made to the history, culture, and politics of the United States. While it is a time of celebration, it is also a time of reflection on the journey that the AAPI community has gone through for acceptance and equity.
Asians and Jews - Standing United
New York City’s Times Square. Photo: Terabass/Wikimedia. Within a matter of days, two violent hate crimes targeting Asian Americans and Jews occurred in broad daylight on the streets of New York. In the first case, a Filipino-American woman on her way to church was attacked, knocked to the ground, and stomped on. The attacker made anti-Asian remarks while pummeling her. Meanwhile, a Hasidic Jewish couple — pushing a 1-year-old baby in a stroller — was assaulted by a man with a sharp object.
Asians and Jews, standing united
By Grace Meng and David Harris New York Daily News | Apr 14, 2021 at 8:00 AM Posters showing the suspect in the assault on a Asian woman is seen outside a building located at 360W 43th Street in Midtown Manhattan and where the Asian woman was attacked in front of Monday afternoon to a full view of a Security Guard at the building.
Asian American elected officials talk about the wave of
NYS Senate Media Services New York State Senator Kevin Thomas Grace Meng, Yuh-Line Niou, Ron Kim, John Liu and Kevin Thomas on the crises their communities are facing. New York, like other parts of the country, has seen an increase in hate crimes and bias incidents targeting Asian Americans. Last month, a clip of a woman being violently shoved to the ground in Flushing went viral, but that was reportedly only one of four attacks against Asian American women in the city that day.
OPINION: The Future of Asian Americans Lies with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Editor’s Note: Grace Meng and Judy Chu are elected Democratic politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives. The views expressed in this piece are solely their own. Words matter. And a president’s words matter even more. That’s why it is critical that we elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who use their words to unify and inspire us to be our best selves.
She came seeking safety. What she got was COVID-19.
By Grace Meng and Linda Corchado Marisa fled El Salvador in February after sustaining years of violent gender-based abuse and repeated failed attempts to seek protection by the police. Battling symptoms of post-traumatic stress, she made her way to the U.S.-Mexico border and was locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso. Nearly two months later, Marisa, whose real name is withheld to protect her privacy, began to feel sick.
Tell the Trump Administration to Protect Asylum Seekers
Ruth Aracely Monroy helps her son, Carlos, with his jacket among tents set up inside a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, March 5, 2019 © 2019 AP Photo/Gregory Bull Under cover of the Covid-19 public health emergency, the Trump administration got to work doing something the president has repeatedly threatened: a near-total shutdown of the United States-Mexico border.
2020 US Elections and Human Rights
Returning citizen Desmond Meade and president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, left, registers to vote. © John Raoux/AP Photo By Alison Leal Parker In November 2018, Floridians struck a major blow against discriminatory voting laws when they went to the ballot box. They approved Amendment 4 in an overwhelming majority, restoring the voting rights of most people in the state with felony convictions. It was an important step toward realizing the American ideal of free and fair elections.
New travel ban reflects Trump administration's discriminatory intent
The Trump administration’s latest travel ban, announced on January 31, targets six countries — Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. Unlike the previous version, which is still in effect, this is not a total ban. But in seeking to limit legal immigration from these countries, the ban fits into a now familiar pattern — executive actions by the Trump administration seemingly designed to curtail legal immigration by nonwhite people, Muslims and those with lower incomes.
Bush Administration Gave US Supreme Court Inaccurate Immigration Data
The US Department of Justice last Friday admitted to a huge mistake. It told the Supreme Court that it made “several significant errors” when providing data in a 2003 immigration case called Demore v. Kim. This was no small “oops.” There is no telling what impact the real figures might have had on the court’s ruling, which relied on these figures. The decision has allowed the prolonged, mandatory detention of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the years since then.
It’s Donald Trump vs. democracy
By Grace Meng New York Daily News | Oct 09, 2019 | 3:13 PM Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks at his wife Melania as they cast their votes at PS-59, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in New York. (Evan Vucci/AP) It is difficult to keep track of all the ways President Trump is attempting to improperly influence the 2020 election.
ICE Raids on US Immigrant Families Risk Serious Abuses
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conduct a targeted enforcement operation in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. on February 9, 2017. © 2017 Reuters President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out raids on undocumented immigrant families in at least 10 major cities starting Sunday.
US Border Prosecutions and the Devastating Cost to Families
Men recently deported from the US wait in line to be registered with Mexican authorities at the border in Nogales, Mexico. © 2010 Associated Press Americans watching the first night of the US Democratic Party primary presidential debates heard a lot about “1325,” as candidate Julian Castro challenged others on the stage to join him in calling for a repeal of this law.
US Supreme Court Strikes Blow Against Liberty
Police officers stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2018. © 2018 Reuters The US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that immigrants with certain criminal convictions – even those who served their time decades ago for minor crimes – may be detained indefinitely without a hearing for bail. Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in this 5-4 decision makes the issue sound like a purely technical one for grammarians and lawyers. But the issue in Nielsen v.
Wall Can’t Fix Problems at Southern US Border
View of a part of the Benito Juarez stadium in Tijuana, Mexico, November 25, 2018. © 2018 Jonathan Pedneault/Human Rights Watch In his speech to the American public on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump put forward a nonsensical argument that the construction of some kind of barrier on the US-Mexico border would fix an incredible range of wildly exaggerated problems.
Russian National Dies After Detention by US Immigration
Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. © Nathalie Graham/The Stranger Over Thanksgiving weekend, another person who was in US immigration detention died. Amar Mergensana, a Russian national who had been detained at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, was taken off life support on Saturday, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE stated he had attempted suicide on November 15; the cause of death was brain injury due to asphyxiation.
Trump Administration Seeks to Detain Children Indefinitely
Trauma, suicidal feelings, dangerously inadequate medical care. These are only some of the harms that immigrant mothers told Human Rights Watch their children were experiencing in US family detention centers, before a federal judge ruled in 2015 that children detained with parents must be released within 20 days.
Stint in Solitary Preceded Death in US Immigration Detention
New information about the latest suicide in US immigration detention illustrates the cruelty of the system in ignoring detainees’ mental health needs. Efrain de la Rosa spent 21 days in solitary confinement at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. During his last day in isolation, he committed suicide. But the 40-year-old de la Rosa had been previously diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to The Intercept.
Why Oregon should keep its landmark sanctuary law
The Mexican farmworker was only 23 years old and working in an almond orchard in California when the foreman began to offer her food and drink, while reminding her of his power and telling her he could get her more work. This made her uncomfortable, so she always refused, but on the third day, she told me he took her alone to a remote field and raped her. She told no one. She could not afford to leave the job, and he continued to rape her. She did not even consider calling the police.
Trump’s Zero Tolerance Approach Goes Beyond the Border
The Trump administration’s separation of immigrant families at the border has provoked justifiable public outrage and widespread condemnation. But new data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows the crackdown on immigrants is likely wreaking additional havoc on families across the country, far from the border. Under President Barack Obama, government policy was to target unauthorized immigrants with serious criminal offenses for deportation.
Queens rep: Why I’m pushing back on Census citizenship question
On Monday night, at 9:29 p.m., the Commerce Department announced that it will include a citizenship question in the 2020 Census. Secretary Ross decided that a citizenship question would outweigh what he called the “limited potential adverse impacts.” This is the wrong decision and is certain to lay the groundwork for an inaccurate census count. The constitution requires the census to count everybody in the country, not just citizens. There is only one opportunity to conduct the decennial census.
Demanding better mail service in Queens
We write to you regarding the ongoing and serious problems with mail delivery in our congressional districts in Queens. It has come to our attention from our constituents that mail delivery standards throughout Queens are not meeting even the most basic expectations. Many of our constituents report severely delayed mail, sometimes taking weeks to arrive, significant problems with package delivery, and frequent delivery of incorrect mail addressed to individuals who live many blocks away.
We Need a “Clean” Dream Act Now, More Reform Later
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security proudly announced a stark 42 percent increase in immigration arrests in the interior of the country, rather than at the border, during the first eight months of the Trump administration, from the inauguration to September 30. Department officials emphasized that “no category of removable aliens would be exempt from enforcement.” These numbers are nothing to crow about.
Immigration
The US Program's immigration work focuses on reforming harsh, outdated, and ineffective detention and deportation policies to ensure they take into account family unity, flight from persecution, and labor considerations that draw immigrants to the United States.
US White House Immigration Plan Has No Heart
President Donald Trump says he wants to treat Dreamers “with heart,” but the White House Domestic Policy Council is signaling it has very different intentions for other immigrants already forced to contend with a broken and abusive system, a leaked document shows.
Trump’s Dangerous Scapegoating of Immigrants
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a rally with supporters in an arena in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. July 25, 2017.
California Takes a Stand Against Immigrant Detention
California is set to approve a budget today that would take a strong stand against President Donald Trump’s expansion of the abuse-ridden deportation and detention machine. The US$125 billion budget includes a measure preventing local governments from signing contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for new detention facilities or for expansion of existing contracts.
US: Sexual Violence, Harassment of Immigrant Farmworkers
The abusers are well aware of the relative power they have over their victims and so certain groups seem to be particularly vulnerable, Human Rights Watch found. These include girls and young women, recent immigrants, single women, and indigenous women, especially those with limited ability to speak Spanish or English. “Farmworker women can feel utterly powerless in the face of abusive supervisors or employers, and with good reason,” Meng said.
Immigration crackdown promised by Donald Trump could cost lives
ICE should release its death reports so we can know the truth about immigration detention deaths. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 17 announced the death of 58-year-old Atulkumar Babubhai Patel in immigration detention in Georgia. This announcement came just two days after 27-year-old Jean Jimenez-Joseph was found lifeless in his detention cell, following 19 days in solitary confinement at the Stewart Detention Center.
US: New Refugee Order Renews Old Harms
(Washington, DC) – United States President Donald Trump’s new executive order significantly curtailing the US refugee program would inflict similar harms on refugees and Americans as the previous order, Human Rights Watch said today. The March 6, 2017 order bars entry into the US for 90 days to nationals of six Muslim-majority countries, plus those from a yet-unknown list of countries deemed to provide inadequate information for the US to adjudicate visas and other admissions.
US: Immigration Memos Will Wreak Havoc on Rights
The Trump administration’s new immigration enforcement memorandums outline striking and sweeping changes to immigration policy that will have a dire impact on the rights of immigrants and their families and hurt the communities they live in, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a “question and answer” analysis. The US Department of Homeland Security released the memorandums on February 20, 2017.
Confronting Racism Against Asian-Americans (Published 2016)
Michael Luo Deputy Metro Editor, NYT 2:25 PM ET Welcome everyone. To get us started, here’s a video that we produced on #thisis2016 that has now been shared more than 110,000 times on Facebook. Chris Kwok Asian-American Bar Association of New York 2:26 PM ET Chris M. Kwok, from the Asian American Bar Association of New York - Issues Committee Co Chair Anthony Christian Ocampo Sociologist, Cal Poly Pomona 2:26 PM ET Hi, everyone. My name is Anthony Ocampo.
US fails victims of crime
The United States is failing victims of crime in a multitude of ways. The Trump campaign emphasizes the betrayal felt by families whose loved ones were killed by immigrants in the country illegally. The solution they seek – mass deportation – is based on a myth of immigrant criminality, but these families’ frustration with the justice system is not unique. Across the country, crime victims too often experience a system that violates their human rights.
Column: Balancing the scales of justice
The United States is failing victims of crime in a multitude of ways. The Trump campaign emphasizes the betrayal felt by families whose loved ones were killed by immigrants in the country illegally. The solution they seek — mass deportation — is based on a myth of immigrant criminality, but these families’ frustration with the justice system is not unique.
Where’s the justice for crime victims?
The United States is failing victims of crime in a multitude of ways. The Trump campaign emphasizes the betrayal felt by families whose loved ones were killed by immigrants in the country illegally. The solution they seek — mass deportation — is based on a myth of immigrant criminality, but these families’ frustration with the justice system is not unique. Across the country, crime victims too often experience a system that violates their human rights.
Where’s justice for crime victims?
The United States is failing victims of crime in a multitude of ways. The Trump campaign emphasizes the betrayal felt by families whose loved ones were killed by immigrants in the country illegally. The solution they seek — mass deportation — is based on a myth of immigrant criminality, but these families’ frustration with the justice system is not unique. Across the country, crime victims too often experience a system that violates their human rights.
POLITICO Magazine
Around 6:30 p.m. on a frigid January evening in 2013, Ricardo F. heard a knock at his door. He had just arrived at his New Jersey home, and he was about to head out again to join his wife and twin daughters at a family birthday party. He opened the door to find uniformed men on his porch, telling him that they had a warrant for his arrest. “I knew they were immigration,” Ricardo recalled. When he asked the men why they were arresting him, they wouldn’t say. “You have to come with us,” they repeated.
Bipartisan voices are behind Holocaust restitution efforts
Last year across Washington we marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. We celebrated the 25th anniversary of German reunification. We awarded the Monuments Men — made famous by Hollywood — with the Congressional Gold Medal. As the children of immigrants and members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, we have taken a special interest in more nuanced foreign policy issues that do not always make the headlines.
Bipartisan Voices Behind Restitution Efforts
Last year in Washington, D.C., we marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. We celebrated the 25th anniversary of German reunification. We awarded the Monuments Men — made famous by Hollywood — with the Congressional Gold Medal. As the children of immigrants and members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, we have taken a special interest in more nuanced foreign policy issues that do not always make the headlines.
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