Aliya Rahman — a disabled, Bangladeshi-American woman from Minnesota — was arrested during last night's State of the Union. Why? She stood in silent protest of Trump's racist and anti-immigrant speech.

Fear and isolation are the goals of the Trump regime's violent immigration raids and other racist policies. They want to scare us into silence and turn Americans against their immigrant neighbors. But Asian Americans, take note: We've been here before, and our history shows us the way forward. 🧵⬇️

🎉 VICTORY: This week, the U.S. Department of Education withdrew its anti-DEI February 2025 “Dear Colleague” Letter — a directive that sought to promote a whitewashed version of American history and literature by controlling what educators can do or say in their classrooms. 🧵⬇️

We agree, @kim.senate.gov: This is a waste of taxpayer dollars that will result in nothing but pain and suffering for Asian and other immigrant communities. That's why we need to make our voices loud and clear. 🧵⬇️

BREAKING: Lorth Sim - a 59-year-old man from Cambodia - was found dead in an ICE detention center in Indiana on Monday morning. He is the ninth Asian immigrant to die in ICE custody since Trump took office last year. 🧵⬇️

Since Trump announced his bogus $100,000 fee for certain H-1B visa applicants last year, the political debates over the visa program have only continued to escalate. South Asian communities in the U.S. — who make up 73% of H-1B visa holders — are caught directly in the crossfire.

Today, billions of people are celebrating the start of the Lunar New Year. From Tết celebrations in Vietnam to the Seollal festival in Korea, this holiday holds significant cultural meaning for Asian communities in the United States and around the world. 🧵⬇️

NEW DATA: Equality Labs counted nearly 5 million Islamophobic posts (!!!) across X and other social platforms last year. Now, they're exposing an alarming pattern: Islamophobic rhetoric online is connected to the political scapegoating we see offline. Learn more ⬇️ asamnews.com/2026/01/27/i...

Under Kristi Noem's leadership: ❗️️ At least 32 people — incl. 8 Asians — died in ICE custody. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Children like 6-year-old Yuanxin & 5-year-old Liam were separated from their parents. 🔎 Agents in MN are going door to door, searching for Hmong and Asian people without warrants.

At least 140 Asian people were arrested by ICE during "Operation Midway Blitz," including Asif Amin Cheema. ICE deported him to Pakistan on New Years Day — ripping him away from his family, ignoring his asylum application, and forcing him onto a flight after he was hospitalized for chest pains. 🧵⬇️

Under Kristi Noem's leadership, DHS and ICE operations have become deadly. At least 32 immigrants died in ICE custody in 2025, yet Noem continues to allow ICE to operate with impunity. Today, we join @votolatino.bsky.social and other organizations nationwide to urge Congress to #ImpeachNoemNow 🧵⬇

Yesterday, ICE detained 8 Chinese people in Monterey Park, sending shockwaves across California's AAPI communities. In a video, a child is heard pleading with law enforcement, saying “Help me, we have nobody else,” and “they’re going to kill him.” The raid was steps away from an elementary school.

Sithy Yi was just 9 years old when her family was approached at gunpoint by the Khmer Rouge, a violent regime that murdered and abused more than a million Cambodians in the 1970s. 🧵⬇️

Since January 2023, we've documented distinct spikes in anti–South Asian hate online — correlating with moments when political figures like Kamala Harris and Zohran Mamdani were in the national spotlight. 🧵⬇️

ICE's terror campaign in Minnesota is spreading fear amongst Asian, Black, and Brown people in the state. Even U.S. citizens are being forced to prove their identities and their right to belong in their communities. 🧵⬇️

News reports reveal the horrific conditions that families are enduring inside ICE's Dilley, Texas facility. Children like 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos are fed food with bugs and formula with unclean water — causing fever, vomiting, and other illnesses.🧵⬇️

From letters to Congress to national protests, everyday people are taking action against Trump’s terror campaign in MN — and our Senators are paying attention. Yesterday, they blocked $370 million in new funding for ICE and DHS. It’s a step in the right direction, but our fight is not over yet. 🧵⬇️

“I’ll never forget my government treating me like this. I really hope this will never happen to anybody else because of the way they look, if they look like the enemy of our country.” - Fred Korematsu

UPDATE: The U.S. Senate just voted NO on a bill that would've given ICE and DHS $370 million in new funding — a clear response to the public outcry against ICE's terror campaign in Minnesota. This is a step in the right direction, but the fight is not over yet.

Today, in a massive show of support, 1,025 organizations, including immigrant justice, human rights, civil rights, faith, and labor organizations, sent a letter to members of Congress to express horror, outrage & deep grief about the recent shooting deaths by federal agents in Minneapolis.

Japanese Americans who lived through WW2 like George Takei know firsthand what it's like to be targeted based on your ethnicity + wrongfully imprisoned by the Govt. It was unacceptable then, and it’s unacceptable now. We refuse to have our taxes be used to repeat this dark chapter of U.S. history 🧵

Every American deserves access to federal services and programs in a language they can understand. CAPAC Chair @meng.house.gov, @chu.house.gov, @repdangoldman.bsky.social and @vargas.house.gov introduced a bill to protect essential multilingual services under threat by the Trump administration.

The Senate will soon vote on a bill that will pump millions in new funding into ICE and DHS – allowing them to expand detention and deportation efforts and increase violence against everyday people. We cannot let this bill pass. The vote could happen as soon as tomorrow, so take action with us now ⬇️

In less than 3 weeks, federal immigration agents have unjustly killed two American citizens who were standing up for their immigrant neighbors and exercising their Constitutional right to protest. Go to StopAAPIHate.org/no-more-ice-funding to tell your senators to vote NO on giving ICE more funding.

We're horrified & heartbroken by the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis today. This comes after ICE shot dead Renee Nicole Good in the same city less than 3 weeks ago. No one is safe when the government can freely kill citizens protesting against tyranny and xenophobia.

Since the 1970s, Southeast Asian refugees have come to Rhode Island to build a future for their families — fleeing countries like Laos, where U.S. military bombings and other actions put their lives at risk. 🧵⬇️

The Senate will soon vote on a bill that would give ICE and DHS millions in extra funding, on top of the billions they got last year. As Trump ramps up attacks on immigrants and allies in Minnesota and beyond, we can't let ICE get more of our taxpayer dollars. 🚨 Tell your senator to vote NO now! ⬇️

The Trump regime’s anti-immigrant agenda is so hateful that it’s hurting people of all ages — even children - regardless of immigration status or citizenship. From schools to soccer fields, hate should have no place in our communities.

💡NEW: As we reflect on the first year of the Trump presidency, we’re breaking down how the administration has brought to life key proposals from Project 2025. From immigration to education and cost of living, Trump wasted no time in executing the proposals in this authoritarian agenda. Learn more ⬇️

Immigrant children are NOT political pawns. We echo the outrage of elected officials and community members over yesterday's kidnappings in Minnesota, and demand that ICE immediately release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and the other children in their custody.

The Trump administration wants us to turn against our immigrant neighbors and blindly support their anti-immigrant attacks in states like Minnesota. But here's the truth: Most Americans disapprove of ICE's horrific tactics. ⬇️🧵

Congratulations to our ED, Manjusha P. Kulkarni, for her state appointment to the CAPIAA! We're thankful for CAPIAA's leadership in addressing hate through programs like Stop the Hate. With her appointment, Manju can further ensure AAPI needs are considered in policies impacting our communities. 💙

ChongLy "Scott" Thao was born in Laos and came to the U.S. with his family at just four years old. He's been a naturalized U.S. citizen for decades — but that didn't stop ICE from breaking down the door to his Minnesota home and carrying him out into the snow with minimal clothes on. 🧵⬇️

CAPAC Chair @meng.house.gov, Chair Emerita @chu.house.gov, and CAPAC member @liccardo.house.gov mark three years since the Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay shootings:

Veteran Asian American journalist John Yang delivered PBS News Weekend's final broadcast after Trump slashed billions of dollars in funding for public media. Trump accused PBS News of "biased coverage," but we know the truth: He's trying to control which stories — and whose stories — get told. 🧵⬇️

The visa freeze is all part of Trump’s broader plan to remake America into a country where only the white and wealthy win. Here’s what you should know. 🧵⬇️

🚨 This is a major step towards full-blown authoritarianism, and everyone should be alarmed. If Trump uses the Insurrection Act to suppress anti-ICE protests in Minnesota, it would be an unprecedented abuse of executive power. 🧵 ⬇️

When a security guard verbally attacked 60-year-old John Le with anti-Asian slurs, Le was brought back to painful memories from his childhood. Le says that kids at his school would, "…yell at you with that term and tell you, go home, you don't belong here." 🧵⬇️

The horrific killings of Keith Porter Jr. and Renee Nicole Good should serve as a wakeup call to Asian Americans and other U.S. citizens across the country: No one is safe from ICE's reign of terror. And that reign is getting bigger and bigger. 🧵⬇️

Stop AAPI Hate joins millions of people across the nation in mourning Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman who was shot dead by ICE in Minneapolis yesterday. Her death was not an isolated tragedy — it was the foreseeable outcome of a militarized federal force operating with impunity. 🧵⬇️

🚨 ICE just had its deadliest year in over two decades. At least 32 people died while in the agency's custody in 2025 – including six Asian people: Chaofeng Ge, Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, Tien Xuan Phan, Kaiyin Wong, Huabing Xie, and Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani.

In 2025, the Trump administration reshaped and upended the lives of Asian Americans nationwide. Our latest blog post breaks down 5 data trends that capture just a few of the urgent challenges our communities face and what we’re doing to rise up against them. Read more ⬇️

5 Asian and Pacific nations will face restrictions under Trump's new travel ban. Laos will face a full ban and Tonga a partial ban starting Jan. 1. And the consequences for our communities are devastating. @irap.bsky.social has the details ⬇️ refugeerights.app.box.com/s/d8jwmamw2z...

Trump is re-escalating his immigration crackdown by expanding his racist travel ban to 39 countries. That includes 8 Asian and Pacific Island nations. This policy will tear families apart and endanger vulnerable people from around the world, many of them Muslim and most of them people of color.

💡 NEW REPORT: We surveyed Pacific Islander (PI) adults nationwide, and found that a shocking 47% of them have recently experienced racism or discrimination. Here are some of the key findings from our new report, “Unsettled Waters: Anti-Pacific Islander Hate Amid Ongoing Injustice.” ⬇️

CAPAC Condemns Anti-Muslim, Xenophobic Rhetoric from Republican Elected Officials:

At colleges and universities nationwide, students from Asia and around the world worry about being stalked, kidnapped, and disappeared by the Trump admin. In fact, an overwhelming majority (90%) of international students are fearful about their visa status, according to our new national survey. 🧵⬇️

Activists in Seattle successfully stopped the deportation of Greggy Sorio — a U.S. green card holder from the Philippines facing life-threatening health risks in ICE detention. 🧵⬇️

💡 NEW DATA: Trump’s attacks on education, immigration, and free speech have forced international students — most of them Asian — to stay silent and put their futures on hold. Only 4% of international students reported feeling “very” or “extremely” safe in the US, according to our national survey. 🧵⬇️

It's been 2 weeks since ICE agents forcefully separated Yuanxin from his father Fei, and there are still no answers on the boy's location or if the family will be reunited. Their community gathered at Yuanxin's school to denounce ICE's horrific tactics and call for the family's immediate release. 🧵⬇️