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Grace Meng: “Your president and your party and your colleagues can talk about issues with any other country that you want. But you…”

On the recordMarch 18, 2021
Your president and your party and your colleagues can talk about issues with any other country that you want. But you don’t have to do it by putting a bull’s eye on the back of Asian-Americans across this country, on our grandparents on our kids.
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Grace Meng
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Meng criticizes the rhetoric used by Republican colleagues that endangers the Asian-American community.

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