Elijah Cummings: “I have tremendous respect for our U.S. attorneys.”

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

Asian Americans are becoming more politically visible, and our numbers are showing that.

If we had a House and if we had a Senate that would pass legislation and we had a President that would sign it, this problem which is the subject of this hearing today could be fixed.