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On the recordMarch 19, 2024
harken back to nativist anti-Asian alien land laws in the 19th and 20th centuries after Chinese immigrants first arrived here, and later, a xenophobic suspicion of Japanese Americans during World War II that also led to their blanket incarceration.
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Judy Chu
Democratic · California

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Judy Chu highlights historical discrimination against Asians in land ownership.

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