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AAPI Communities Confront a Hidden Deportation Crisis
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with Timmy Lu, founding executive director of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment (AAPI FORCE), and Aquilina Soriano Versoza, co-founder and executive director of the Pilipino Workers Center. Their conversation exposed a dramatic rise in immigration arrests targeting Asian American and Pacific Islander communities—an escalating crisis largely missing from mainstream coverage. Lu clarified that while immigration arrests across California increased 386 percent from 2024 to 2025, arrests involving AAPI immigrants surged by an…
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