OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates proudly announces the 2025 OCA-UPS Gold Mountain Scholarship recipients, twelve graduating high school seniors and four rising college seniors, recognizing their academic excellence, leadership, and financial need.

The Trump administration’s decision to revoke visas for Chinese international students is a discriminatory and politically motivated action that fuels anti-Asian sentiment, undermines academic institutions, and damages America’s global competitiveness.

Through OCA’s 2025 Summer Internship Program, twelve college students from across the nation will spend the summer in Washington, D.C., gaining real-world experience in policy, advocacy, and public service.

OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates will host its 2025 National Convention at the University of Washington in Seattle, celebrating AANHPI history, youth leadership, and community advocacy through engaging panels and special honors.

OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates strongly opposes the House-passed SAVE Act, warning that it needlessly restricts voting access under the pretense of addressing noncitizen voting.

OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates condemns the President’s abuse of power, which endangers civil rights, democracy, and the fundamental freedoms of immigrant, marginalized, and historically oppressed communities.

OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates has joined a lawsuit against President Trump’s executive order on voter registration, arguing that it unlawfully overrides congressional and state authority and threatens to disenfranchise millions.

OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates joins the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the Sierra Club, and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in taking legal action against Elon Musk and DOGE for unlawfully cutting federal funding, dismantling agencies, and firing employees.

President Trump’s executive order declaring English the official U.S. language and rescinding language access protections is a harmful policy that marginalizes immigrant communities, restricts access to essential services, and undermines civil rights.

OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates, along with other civil rights organizations, has filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order to revoke birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents on temporary visas or who are undocumented, arguing it violates the Fourteenth Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act.