Elijah Cummings: “I stand in strong opposition to this legislation, but I want to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr.…”

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

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.

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