Elijah Cummings: “I sincerely thank you for bringing this hearing to Brooklyn.”

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.

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

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

I really do think that we are in a moral situation. People are striving to live, trying to breathe the air of our country, trying to be better, trying to be healthy.