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“近年来，旧金山的移民群体在语言上变得更加多元化，”旧金山语言服务网络的联合负责人吴雨泊表示。他发现，如今对哈萨克语和土库曼语口译员的需求有所增加，而过去这两种语言的需求却很少见。
In recent years, San Francisco’s pool of migrants has become even more linguistically diverse, said Jose Ng, who co-leads the Language Access Network. He’s now seeing more requests for interpreters who speak Kazakh and Turkmen, for example, two languages he…
A small group of staff and volunteers for Chinese for Affirmative Action gathered to watch the election returns for Proposition 50 tonight in San Francisco.
Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), hosted a watch party to monitor results. They didn’t have to wait long. The Associated Press announced that the ballot measure was projected to pass just minutes after the polls closed at 8 p.m.
To that end, CCC is one of six organizations that make up the Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative, a multidisciplinary coalition — including the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Chinese Historic Society of America, Center for Asian American Media, Chinatown…
“People haven’t really thought about, ‘Oh, Chinatown might be impacted by immigration raids,’” said Ng, who manages the immigrant rights program at the local nonprofit advocacy group Chinese for Affirmative Action. “Then it happened in New York City, and now…
星島中文電台粵語台「焦點訪談」節目，23日邀請華人權益促進會兩位代表：移民權益項目經理Jose Ng（吳先生）與移民權益社區倡議人Gin Ma（馬小姐），就聯邦執法人員可能進入灣區、移民及社區面臨的政策變動作深入分析。
華人權益促進會指出，雖然三藩市長期被視為「庇護城市」，但聯邦與地方的移民執法政策依然變化頻繁，移民社區更感不安。然而，聯邦政府近年來強化移民政策、並透過國民警衛軍支援 ICE 執法，使得「庇護」地位也面臨新的挑戰。
Prior to the announcement, Chinese for Affirmative Action and the Asian Law Caucus, both based in San Francisco, made the following statements.
“We call on everyday AA+PI people to join the fight against Trump’s unconstitutional, xenophobic attacks on birthright citizenship and international students,” says Annie Lee, managing director of policy at Chinese for Affirmative Action and a policy co-lead for Stop AAPI…
“I was excited that the mayor continues to bring everyone together and there was palpable energy to resist the unlawful military actions of the federal administration,” said Vincent Pan, co-executive director for Chinese for Affirmative Action, a San Francisco-based social…
Local leaders like Vincent Pan, executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, worry about cultural displacement from the area. Pan said that even before the pandemic, more blocks on Grant Avenue, the tourist corridor, were being taken over by storefronts…