Elijah Cummings: “I want us to put a microscope for a moment on the first category of people at high risk...”

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.

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

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.