Announcements

With each passing day, many of us find ourselves asking what the standard for the “new normal” is. But just when we get to a point where we think a line has been established, it inevitably gets [...]

Dear Friends, The battle between the better angels of our nature and our worst impulses has been waged since our nation’s founding. We have aspired to the prospect that all people are created [...]

Act now to stop S. 354, the RAISE Act! Senators Tom Cotton of Georgia and David Perdue of Arkansas have introduced the RAISE Act to cut legal immigration by half, reduce green cards to family [...]

Thank you to everyone who contacted our senators, and friends in key states, to urge their opposition to the Senate healthcare bill or “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BRCA), the heartless [...]

By Andria Keirn, Americorps Employment and Self Sufficiency Aide May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that Asian Pacific Americans [...]

ACRS is joining the May Day rally at 11 a.m. in Judkins Park on Monday, May 1, and the march at 1 p.m. to demonstrate our support for the rights of immigrants, refugees, workers, people of color, [...]

Like many other immigrant and refugee communities and communities of color, our Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community faces challenging times ahead. Our AAPI community includes a [...]

Dear Friend, The U.S. House of Representatives may proceed with a vote as early as Friday, March 24 on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act [...]

On February 23, over 1,700 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) representing over 20 language groups from all four corners of Washington State took part in an annual trek to our state [...]

America’s immigration policy began with the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Exclusionary legislation affecting Asia followed, until 1965 when new legislation finally opened the door for significant [...]