Elijah Cummings: “We heard testimony during our investigation that some people waited so long for their hearings that they died waiting.”

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.

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

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

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