Law Office of Aaron Giron

ENLACE DEL PORTAL DE ACNUR PARA LA GENTE DE MPP CON CASOS ACTIVOS https://conecta.acnur.org/ A PARTIR DEL 19 DE FEBRERO, si tienes un caso activo bajo el Protoc...olo de Protección a Migrantes (MPP por sus siglas en inglés) podrás registrarte por internet a través de este sitio o vía telefónica, así que no es necesario que te muevas a otra ciudad o hacia la frontera. Segun el portal AHORA, casos activos solamente incluye casos con una fecha de audiencia programada. SIN EMBARGO, estamos luchando que el FASE UNO incluye a la gente con apelaciones pendientes. Recuerde que este es fase uno; ojala, va haber mas fases para la gente quien se encuentra ahora en USA or sus paises de origin, y a la gente con casos cerrados. Como siempre, mi sugerencia es quedate en casa y no se desesperarse. Cualquier rumor que han escuchado sobre acercarse a la frontera o meterse en albergue no es cierto. ¡Cuídense mucho de las estafas! Si recibe llamadas o correos electrónicos pidiendo dinero para fianzas, vuelos, o la reunificación familiar, son estafas, no son agentes de inmigración.

Dedicated board members Aaron Giron (left) and Diana Laranang finishing their volunteer duties at the law clinic's offices.

In early April 1934, seventeen-year-old Primitivo Gonzales left his hometown of Numancia, on the island of Panay in the Philippines, and proceeded to Manila. On... April 18, 1934, he boarded the USS President Hoover with more than a hundred Filipinos on board, en route to San Francisco. Gonzales had no visa for entry into the United States, because he didn’t need one. When he left Manila, the Philippines was a United States colony, and he was a colonial subject, a national a category between alien and citizen. On April 30, 1934, as Gonzales’ ship streamed towards San Francisco, the Philippine Senate followed the US Congress’ lead and ratified the Tydings-McDuffie Act, otherwise known as the Philippine Independence Act. The Act, a victory for anti-Filipino exclusionists and Filipino nationalists, promised Philippine independence in 10 years, changed the status of Filipinos from nationals to aliens, and established an entry quota of 50 per year (a compromise when some in Congress wanted no entry at all; in comparison, the annual entry quota for Germans was 57,000). Overnight, he became a deportable alien under the provisions of the 1924 Immigration Act, which had established strict immigration exclusions and quotas based on racial and national origins. On May 9, 1934, Gonzales and 143 other Filipinos aboard the USS Hoover were held at Angel Island, the isolated immigration station, that had opened in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay to detain Asian immigrants. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) ruled that Gonzales was to be excluded (or detained until his admissibility was determined) because he was an alien who lacked the proper immigration visa. The sudden change of the status of Filipino immigrants from nationals to deportable aliens on May 1, 1934, the lack of advance warning, and the confusion that ensued, mirrors the fallout from Executive Orders issued in recent history. Excerpts from "What Filipina/o American History Can Teach Us About the Recent Executive Order on Immigration" by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Ph.D. & Kevin Nadal, Ph.D. Photo of Primitivo Gonzales, Courtesy of the National Archives, San Bruno Learn more : http://fanhs-national.org//what-filipinao-american-histor/

Join the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium and Mitra Ebadolahi, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties, on Facebook... Live for a webinar to understand your rights when attending protests. Our goal is to make certain people understand how to exercise their First amendment Rights safely, so that they can make informed decisions regarding whether to participate in a protest or march in the coming days and weeks. See more

Some news from Immigrant Defenders Law Center.

Breaking news https://news.bloomberglaw.com//u-s-judge-blocks-new-visa-f

It's #TeamTuesday!! This week we are highlighting Attorney Aaron Giron. Let's learn more about him! Tell us about something you care about? Apart from my work... with Pag-Asa, I am also involved in in the LGBTQIA community in North County San Diego. There are very few LGBTQIA Filipino-Americans who are active in the socially conscious/progressive activism sphere, so I pride myself on being an example to others who feel like they are excluded from occupying that space. The work of the North County LGBTQ Center is far ranging and includes everything from providing free and low-cost mental health services, HIV testing, housing for youth, and support services for the elderly. What brings you joy? I am a born and raised San Diegan so I love being outside and hanging out at the beach. I try to be outdoors and active as often as I can. If I’m not outside, I love playing Overwatch (a video game), reading science fiction, and binge watching tv shows on any streaming platform, (currently, I am re-watching Star Trek: Voyager). Besides Pag-Asa Law Clinic, what else are you involved in? The North County LGBTQ Resource Center and Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego! Photo Description: Me and my dog Suzie hanging out in Leucadia.

Pag-asa in Filipino means hope. Pag-asa Law Clinic is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in San Diego, California. We first began in 2019 with the vision to provide accessible legal services to uplift the Filipino community regardless of legal status or income level feel accepted, respected, secured and liberated from fear, social stigma, and oppression. https://www.pagasalawclinic.org/

The Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump administration and extended a lifeline to DACA allowing the program that has permitted about 650,000 "Dreamers" to stay and work in the U.S. legally to continue for now.

For Filipinx-Americans, talking about anti-blackness and racism with our immigrant family members can be challenging, but it’s our job as allies to start disman...tling anti-blackness at home and in our own communities. Took a page from Cathy Tran’s Vietnamese graphics and designed a shareable, abridged version of Letters For Black Lives from 2016 (edited with more recent facts and figures). The full version and other translations can be found here: https://lettersforblacklives.com/about-the-letter-ed27ea67e

****Official Statement. Please Share While the LGBTQ community has a strong legacy of resisting hate, violence, and police brutality, our voices to bring racist... murderers to justice needs to be clear and loud, now more than ever. The live images of the killing of George Floyd and (a few weeks earlier) the lynching of Ahmau Arbery, are becoming the new norm. While we condemn the senseless killing at the hands of the Minnesota police and call for criminal charges against all the police officers involved, we also know that this is a systemic problem. When other officers stand around without intervening to prevent Mr. Floyd’s death, we know it is a systemic problem. When white America stands around pointing at the looting, at the anger, and at the rioting but never at herself, it is a systemic problem. When the President of the United States openly incites violence and advocates the shooting of protesters but sympathizes with an army of white supremacists marching inside the Michigan State Capitol, you know that this is a systemic problem. It is a problem that has infected America at its core. The privilege of believing that a few rotten apples have contaminated a perfectly functioning system has been proven wrong several hundred times just in the past few years. At the North County LGBTQ Resource Center we stand with our human siblings of all races and colors. We mourn the losses of trans women of color, who continue to be killed in America without seeing any justice. Transphobia, isolation, or the lack of access to healthcare leaves the poor more exposed during a pandemic and are all amplified through the intersections of race and prejudice. We are not here just to point a finger and condemn; each and everyone one of us must do better. Our queer community needs to do better. We pledge to continue the effort to lead by example, to stand against the violence, but also in opposition to the forced assimilations, not just of our sexual and gender identities, but race as well. June is around the corner and marks our own revolt against police violence against our communities at the Stonewall Inn in New York and other similar places around this country. It was our moment when trans women of color, drag queens, and all of us stood up against the abuses of oppression and injustice. Many achieved equality thanks to that movement, but others are still left behind. It is time to pick up where we left off and begin again to move all of us forward. The North County LGBTQ Resource Center joins so many others to stand side by side with our Black and Brown community members fighting for their lives, dignity, and pursuit of happiness. We also stand against any form of hate that has affected our Native American and Asian American communities during this pandemic. Stop the Hate. Stop the Violence. We invite you to do the same #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter

If you, or anyone you know, are impacted by a sudden loss of employment related to a J-1 visa, please contact an immigration attorney as soon as possible. https://news.abs-cbn.com//pinoy-j-1-visa-holders-bearing-b

INTRODUCING: The San Diego Immigrant Relief Fund to assist immigrant families during the coronavirus outbreak in San Diego along with other emergencies that may... arise in the future. Some immigrant workers are ineligible for certain federal and state benefits such as unemployment and food stamps. That's why we're here to help. Click to apply, share or donate! See more