As a teenager, Meenu Batra sought refuge in the U.S. after fleeing deadly, anti-Sikh riots in India. She built a new life in Texas, where she's raising her four children and supports local South Asian communities as a court interpreter. But now Batra faces an uncertain future in ICE detention. 🧵⬇️

This week, Super Typhoon Sinlaku made landfall on the U.S. territories of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam — knocking down power lines, flooding homes, and blocking roads. Our hearts are with the thousands of people who call these islands home, including the AAPI family members of our team. 🧵⬇️

ICE's violent occupation of Minnesota showed us what happens when federal power goes unchecked. But now, county officials are working to hold ICE accountable — including investigating the arrest of Hmong American ChongLy "Scott" Thao as a possible kidnapping. 🧵⬇️

🕯️Today, we join sangat members in Indianapolis and Sikhs nationwide to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the April 15, 2021, mass shooting at a FedEx ground facility where eight individuals, including four Sikhs, were killed.

If SCOTUS allows Trump's birthright citizenship EO to proceed, it could create a underclass of people without citizenship, access to public education, social benefits, or voting rights. For Norman Wong, being treated as a second-class citizen is not a hypothetical thing. It's his family history.

Tuan Van Bui — a Vietnamese man who's called the U.S. home since 1990 — died at an ICE facility in Indiana on April 1. This marks the 46th death — 11th of an Asian person — to occur in ICE's horrific concentration camps since Trump returned to the White House in 2025. 🧵⬇️

During ICE's occupation of Minnesota, agents took Oudone Lothraith — a Laotian man battling cancer — from his home and forced him into a detention center in Texas. He missed chemotherapy sessions and received no medical care, causing his cancer to spread and his chances of survival to plummet.

Many AA/PI families feel the impacts of Trump's anti-immigrant agenda — including the fear of being racially profiled by ICE, and the trauma of being wrongfully detained and deported. In fact, most AA/PI adults think Trump has gone too far and is doing more harm than good on immigration. ⬇️

Norman Wong, a descendant of Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese American whose Supreme Court citizenship case affirmed birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, shares why protecting birthright citizenship matters.

If Trump's attack on birthright citizenship succeeds, how will it affect Asian communities? According to our co-founder and co-director, Cynthia Choi, it would completely upend the lives of immigrant families like her own.

For generations, Asian Americans came to the U.S. on visas to work for U.S. companies and study at U.S. universities. They contributed to our communities and economy while trying to get citizenship. Birthright citizenship protects the rights of their children to grow up as equal members of society.

It’s not enough for President Trump to be against the children of immigrants, but he has to engage in anti-Asian hate too. There’s a through line from the COVID days and his “Wuhan virus” and “kung flu” language. We haven’t forgotten. @stopaapihate.org

Five years after the Atlanta spa shootings, anti-Asian hate still remains 3x higher than pre-pandemic levels. CAPAC members met with @napawf.org and @stopaapihate.org today to discuss the evolving state of anti-AAPI hate and how to ensure our community is safe, protected and supported.

As a proud partner of the No Kings Coalition, we’re excited to march with our communities on Saturday, March 28 to say: Our democracy belongs to the people, not to kings. 🚨 Want to join us? Go to stopaapihate.org/NoKings to find an event near you and RSVP.

As the DHS shutdown drags into its sixth week, Trump is wasting our taxpayer dollars to send unqualified and untrained ICE agents into our airports. This directive is only adding to the fear and chaos that travelers are experiencing nationwide. 🧵⬇️

With masked ICE agents invading our neighborhoods and ripping our families apart, there’s too much at stake for AAPI communities to sit on the sidelines. That’s why Stop AAPI Hate is a proud partner of the #NoKings movement for the next National Day of Nonviolent Action. 🧵⬇️

When ICE occupies our cities, they spread fear, separate families, and use deadly violence against immigrants and U.S. citizens alike. Now that Trump is deploying ICE to U.S. airports nationwide, we expect them to use the same scare tactics on travelers from around the world.

Did you know that 30% of Muslim adults in the U.S. are Asian, with roots that span across Indonesia, India, Malaysia, and other countries? Today, many of them are observing Eid al-Fitr, a celebration to mark the end of Ramadan.

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal served alongside the U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He sought refuge in the U.S. in 2021, but Trump's anti-immigrant agenda just cost him his life. He is the 10th Asian person to die in ICE custody since Trump's re-election. This cycle of preventable deaths must end now.

On this day in 2021, a gunman murdered eight people — six of them Asian women — in spas across Atlanta, GA. The Atlanta spa shootings sent shockwaves of grief and anger across the nation. But instead of scaring us into silence, it inspired us to act.

💡NEW DATA: Since Trump’s re-election, Asian and Pacific Islander (A/PI) adults are feeling the weight of his anti-immigrant policies and political rhetoric. Half (53%) of A/PI adults say they or another A/PI person they know was impacted by anti-immigrant policies or sentiment in 2025. 🧵⬇️

Since his return to the White House, Trump has deported more than 2,000 Southeast Asian (SEA) Americans. Approximately 15,000 more SEA Americans are being threatened with the same fate — including Hai Nguyen. 🧵⬇️

Trump knows political representation determines who’s allowed to thrive in the U.S. and who gets shut out. That’s why he’s trying to rig our elections — but we have a chance to fight back, and it starts with leveling the playing field in states like Virginia. 🧵⬇️

When Sunny Naqvi — a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent — didn't come home after a flight from Turkey to the U.S., her family began tracking her phone's location. They watched in horror as she was held at Chicago O'Hare airport for over 30 hours. 🧵⬇️

The fate of our democracy and the safety of our communities are connected. As AAPI and immigrant communities across the nation face unrelenting attacks, we need elected officials who will protect our rights, confront hate and bigotry, and give AAPI communities the fair representation we deserve. 🧵⬇

🚨 BREAKING: Trump fired Kristi Noem from her position as DHS Secretary. This comes after widespread public outcry against Noem’s recklessness. Under her leadership, federal agents sowed chaos in the streets of Minneapolis; dragged people from their homes; and murdered U.S. citizens. 🧵⬇️

Today, millions of people in India, Nepal, and across the South Asian diaspora celebrate Holi. In this time of division in the U.S., it's a beautiful reminder of what's possible when people can express our cultures without fear. To all who observe: happy Holi! 🌈

The Buddhist Church of Sacramento — a place of worship for many Japanese Americans — was vandalized with white supremacist slogans and symbols. To add insult to injury, the vandalism took place on the Day of Remembrance for Japanese Americans who were wrongfully incarcerated during World War II. 🧵⬇️

In the face of Trump's cruel deportations and family separations, immigrant parents are having "The Talk" with their children — a candid conversation about what to do if they encounter ICE. 🧵⬇️ 19thnews.org/2026/02/ice-...

When ICE agents invade our cities and arrest our neighbors based solely on the color of their skin or the language they speak, it jeopardizes everyone's safety and freedoms, regardless of their immigration status. 🧵⬇️

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, was found dead in Buffalo, NY, after Border Patrol agents reportedly abandoned him without shoes miles away from his home. In addition to his disability, Nurul did not speak English. His family wasn’t even notified about his release. ⬇️🧵

ICE claims it is pulling back its terror campaign in Minnesota, but life is still a nightmare for many Hmong Americans. 🧵⬇️

We are in solidarity with the Sikh Coalition, Hindus for Human Rights, and SALDEF as they condemn the Hindu American Foundation's crude, offensive remarks about the assassination of a Sikh American. Rhetoric that condones and downplays violence is dangerous and unacceptable.

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.🧵⬇️