Commentary
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Tracking Project 2025: One Year Later – The Impact on Asian & Pacific Islander Communities
In 2024, Stop AAPI Hate published an analysis of Project 2025 to sound the alarm about the massive implications for Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AA/PI) people. Project 2025 is an ultra-authoritarian blueprint to Trump’s second term written by the Heritage Foundation — a Christian nationalist group that has deep ties to the current administration.…
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Keeping Count | Five Ways Trump’s Agenda Impacted Asian Communities in 2025
In 2025, the Trump administration reshaped and upended the lives of Asian and Pacific Islander people across the country. ICE agents are unlawfully abducting people and tearing families apart. Sudden immigration policy changes are leaving visa-holders in limbo and cutting off critical pathways to safety for asylum seekers and refugees. And high-ranking officials are spewing…
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Keeping Count | Hate Enters the New York Mayoral Race
Islamophobic and racist slurs targeting Mamdani surged leading up to and after the election, anti-South Asian hate remained high. On Tuesday, November 4, 2025, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani made history as the first South Asian and Muslim American to be elected the mayor of New York City. While Mamdani’s win marks a huge milestone for diversity…
Press Releases
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Letter to Congress: No funds for ICE and Border Patrol
Stop AAPI Hate joined over 1,000 organizations in a letter to Congress to demand accountability and to halt funding for ICE in light of the violence in Minneapolis and cities across the United States and the deaths at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol. Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned 1,025 organizations, write…
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Stop AAPI Hate Condemns U.S. Border Patrol’s killing of Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti
NATIONWIDE (January 24, 2026) — We are horrified and heartbroken by the killing of Alex Pretti at the hands of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis today. Pretti’s death comes less than three weeks after fellow U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good was shot dead by ICE in the same city. These unjustified killings remind us that…
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Stop AAPI Hate Strongly Opposes Trump’s Visa Freeze Targeting 14 Asian and Pacific Islander Countries
NATIONWIDE (January 16, 2026) — Stop AAPI Hate issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s decision to stop processing immigrant visas for people from 75 countries starting January 21, as it attempts to expand its “public charge” policy. This freeze targets 14 Asian and Pacific Islander nations: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji,…