Elijah Cummings: “I should not have to say this, but obviously that is against the law. It is against Federal law.”

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.

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.

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

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