Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and Rep. Tim Kennedy (NY-26) led a coalition of 35 House Democrats in demanding the Trump administration immediately reverse a dangerous new policy that allows for the arrest and detention of legally admitted refugees after one year in the United States.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), André Carson (IN-07), and Judy Chu (CA-28), CAPAC Chair Emerita, are introducing legislation recognizing five years since a tragic mass shooting took the lives of eight employees at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. The facility’s workforce was nearly 90 percent of Sikh descent.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, 53 Members of Congress — led by the Chairs of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus — sent a letter to House and Senate leadership calling for meaningful Fourth Amendment protections for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17), Ranking Member of House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, and Rep. Grace Meng (NY-6), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, sent a letter to National Science Foundation (NSF) Interim Director Brian Stone encouraging the NSF to continue work to protect American scientific endeavors and highlighting the work of the Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, released the following statement as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara regarding the legality of President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Grace Meng (NY-06) issued the following statement after House Republicans voted against a bipartisan agreement to reopen essential agencies without funding federal immigrant enforcement: