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

By Erin Pangilinan

On Sunday, March 21, NAKASEC (the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium) asks you to march with us on the Capitol alongside tens of thousands to demand President Barack Obama and Congress keep their promise to fix our broken immigration system in 2010. Immigration reform is vital to making America’s economy working for all families. Our communities cannot wait any longer. It’s time to give democracy a workout and march together and hold our elected leaders accountable.

Look at "those illegals,” my friend said jokingly while he was dropping me off to the Bart Station. He pointed at two Mexican immigrants standing against the fence. Although it was a joke, I was extremely angry. Yet, I was defenseless and vulnerable. I simply laughed with him and stayed casual as if nothing happened. Once he dropped me off, I wondered if he would treat me differently if he knew that I’m also “illegal.”

Mother’s Kettle Corn & the American Marketplace
By EunSook Lee

I travel out of town for work for many weeks out of a year, so whenever I am in Los Angeles, I feel like I am rushing to squeeze as much out of the limited days I have in the office. I do that so that I can spend special time with my children. And, when we can, we make sure to stop by the farmer’s market. We go for our favorite: standard American kettle corn.