Elijah Cummings: “We need to all be rowing in the same direction. People are dying out there.”

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

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

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

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.