In recent years, anti-immigrant voices and legislation have fueled a heated national immigration debate, while disproportionately ignoring Asian Americans.
Three statistics underlie this fact: that nearly 40 percent of all immigrants to the U.S. come from Asia, that 1.5 million of them are undocumented and that more than 60 percent of Asian Americans are foreign-born.
As the nation's premiere authority on immigration policy as it affects the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, we have long led the struggle to educate the public, lawmakers and the media on the pressing need to overhaul our nation's badly broken immigration system.
We also provide the Asian American community with essential information, insight and analysis on newly enacted and proposed immigration policies. We have also successfully helped initiate bipartisan reform in the House and Senate that addresses many of the pressing needs of the community.
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Tuyet G. Duong
Senior Staff Attorney, Immigration and Immigrant Rights Program
Phone: 202-296-2300, x124
Fax: 202-296-2300
