Elijah Cummings: “I think there is nothing more American than the freedom of expression and the freedom of association...”

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.

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

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.