APAP-DC presents AAPIs and the Urgency for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

By Erin Pangilinan

In case you missed it, below is a clip of Hemi Kim, DC Director of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC). She discusses principles in legalization, as well as future action and events. Kim discusses financial access in immigration ranging from affordable application fees per family, fines per family, and payment of backtaxes. She also touches the importance of ensuring trust of immigrant communities emphasizing the need for confidentiality of applications to waivers of minor crimes and avoiding the danger of prioritizing enforcement/border security over legalization and touchback (going back to country of origin and reapplying for immigration status).

And remember, please text AAPI to 69866 to join in on the updates on comprehensive immigration. You will be asked to reply with your zip-code and email to become a part of the national Reform Immigration for America campaign's Cell Phone Action Network. As a part of the network, you will receive periodic text messages on the latest news and action opportunities around immigration reform, specific to your state or local community.