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​APALA Blasts Ending of TPS for Salvadorans

1/8/2018

 
Washington, DC - In response to today's decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nearly 200,000 Salvadorans, Monica Thammarath, National President of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA) issued the following statement:
 
"We are disgusted by the administration's decision to uproot hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans who have created and built lives here in the U.S. Trump's cruel mass deportation agenda continues to elevate a xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-worker agenda nationwide and has severe consequences on the moral fabric of who we are as a country. We urge Congress to find a permanent legislative solution to stop the tearing apart of working families for all TPS holders and for all undocumented immigrants who continue to bring invaluable contributions to our economy and to our communities."
 
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APALA Outraged by SCOTUS Decision on the Muslim Ban

12/5/2017

 
Washington, DC - The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA) is outraged by the Supreme Court's decision to fully reinstate the third version of the Muslim Ban. APALA National President Monica Thammarath released the following statement:
 
"Six of the eight countries in this third iteration are Muslim majority countries. The reinstatement of the Muslim Ban is unacceptable at the highest level of our judiciary and will have disastrous consequences on our nation's values and moral fabric. In a time where communities of color, immigrants, and refugees are under attack, we must redefine the narrative of security in this country. To be non-white is to live in an un-safe world simply because of the color of one's skin. As an Asian American and Pacific Islander community, we understand the pain of xenophobia – from heightened surveillance of Muslim- or perceived-to-be-Muslim communities after 9/11 to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Supreme Court is letting history repeat itself -- a stain that will go down in history during Trump's white supremacist, right wing era."

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Highest Ranking Asian American Labor Leaders Arrested in Peaceful Protest

11/15/2017

 
Washington, DC - Today, 19 Asian American peaceful protesters, including two of the highest-ranking Asian American leaders in the labor movement, were arrested in an action to demand Congress pass a clean DREAM Act before December 8. Protesters blocked the entrance of House Speaker Paul Ryan's office in Washington, DC and chanted that he move the DREAM Act to a vote. Those arrested include past and present leadership and staff of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA).
 
Luisa Blue, SEIU Executive Vice President, founding APALA member, and APALA National Executive Board Member, said: "I stood with my sisters and brothers to be arrested today because the AAPI community can no longer stand idly by while Congress and the Trump administration criminalize immigrants and people of color. More than 17,000 hard-working, law-abiding AAPI DACA recipients work and pay taxes in this country, and they now face being separated from their families and returned to the countries they left as children. Congress needs to pass a no-strings attached DREAM Act to protect 800,000 Dreamers, and act on behalf of our 300,000 sisters and brothers whose lives will be placed in limbo if Congress does not pass legislation extending Temporary Protected Status."
 
Johanna Puno Hester, AFSCME International Vice President, Assistant Executive Director of the United Domestic Workers of America, and immediate past president of APALA, added: "Our labor movement is ready to resist, organize, and fight back against hate. Today, I was proud to join eighteen other sisters and brothers on the front lines to say that the labor movement is not turning our backs on our undocumented community. The time to act is now, and we urge other organizers and leaders within the movement to join us in this fight for our freedom." 
 
Current APALA President Monica Thammarath of the National Education Association (NEA) concluded: “We thank all the undocumented youth for standing up and speaking out and also NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia and AFSCME Secretary Treasurer Elissa McBride for showing up for our communities. We are ready to put our bodies on the line -- that’s what this action was all about. Millions of undocumented working families live in fear of detention and deportation every single day. The Trump administration continues to stoke fear into our immigrant and refugee communities, and today and every day until white supremacists are out of office, we will protect and defend our family, friends, and communities from hate violence, racism, and xenophobia.” 
 
The action was held in coordination with the AAPI Immigrant Rights Organizing Table's Days of Mobilization to demand a clean DREAM Act. For more information, please visit: aapidream.org. 

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