Elijah Cummings: “We want judges to have independence, which they should have.”

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.

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.

The American people demanded that their representatives in Washington fight for them and for what affects their lives on a day-to-day basis.