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Aquino finally makes TPS request, FilAms await U.S. response
The Philippines has formally requested Washington for additional immigration relief measures to allow eligible Filipinos to stay and work in the United States so they could support the country’s long-term post-typhoon recovery efforts, the Department of Foreign Affairs announced Monday, December 16. Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario said the request to designate the […]
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LGBT Asians join fasting campaign for immigration reform
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) committed this week to continue to fight for immigrants’ rights in Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities. Today, NQAPIA joins our partners and allies in Washington, DC to call on our lawmakers to do the […]
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More FilAm students today want to work in PHL than 2 years ago: Cuisia
A growing number of Filipino American students are interested in exploring employment opportunities in the Philippines, according to Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. The economic transformation taking place in the homeland their parents left years ago is what’s prompting this job surge, he said “Most of the Filipino American youths I have talked to see […]
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Armless pilot Jessica Cox offers to help survivors who lost their limbs to typhoon Haiyan
Armless pilot Jessica Cox, whose Filipino mother is from Guiuan, Eastern Samar, has offered to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan, especially those who have lost their limbs during the widespread devastation across the Visayas. Cox holds the Guinness World Record for being the first armless person in aviation history to earn a pilot’s certificate. She […]
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Fasting for immigration: Will it move the GOP?
By Maricar CP Hampton While much of America was feasting over Thanksgiving dinner, several undocumented immigrants were huddled in tents and feeding themselves only with water. “Fast for Families: A Call for Immigration Reform & Citizenship” is entering its fourth week with fasting immigrants eating very little and hoping to draw attention to the urgent […]
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Taiwanese teen helped raise $17K from her community
“I was so shocked most when I saw that many of the children (were) without homes or food.” The images that Typhoon Haiyan’s unimaginable havoc left in the Philippines made a heartbreaking imprint in the mind of 13-year-old MeiJade Hsu, an eighth grader from Maryland. On November 16, MeiJade made an emotional appeal for donations […]