Press Releases

Seventy-three years ago today, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of over 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry.

Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) criticized a Federal District Court order temporarily halting the President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

Last year, Southern California Edison (SCE) announced that they would begin layoffs of about 500 information technology workers.

Today, Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) released the following statements to condemn the use of excessive police force against Sureshbhai Patel, an Indian grandfather who was left partially paralyzed after an encounter will Alabama police.

Today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will begin publishing monthly seasonally adjusted data on Asian American employment.

In honor of Black History Month celebrated in February, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) released the following statement.

Late last night, after an earlier bill to ban almost all abortions after 20 weeks failed to gain enough support from Republican House Members, House Leadership fast tracked H.R. 7 for a vote this morning.

Today, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) joined Representatives Keith Ellison (MN-5), Mark Pocan (WI-2), and Steve Israel (TN-9) and 21 other House Democrats in introducing H.J.Res.25, a Constitutional Amendment to explicitly guarantee the right to vote for every American.