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A spate of high-profile assaults on Asian Americans has renewed long-standing criticism from Democrats and civil rights groups that the U.S. government is vastly undercounting hate crimes, a problem that they say has grown more acute amid rising white nationalism and deepening racial strife. The attacks - including several in Northern California over the past month that attracted national attention - followed months of warnings from advocates that anti-China rhetoric from former president Donald Trump over the coronavirus pandemic was contributing to a surge in anti-Asian slurs and violence. Although President Biden last month signed an executive action banning the federal government from employing the sort of “inflammatory and xenophobic” language Trump used to describe the virus - such as “China plague” and “kung flu” - Asian American leaders said the recent attacks demonstrate a need for greater urgency in dealing with such threats.
The Justice Department’s efforts to report and track such incidents have been beset by incomplete and inconsistent data from the nation’s 18,000 local law enforcement agencies.
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In late 2019 global health authorities began warning of an outbreak of what appeared to be a new respiratory virus. The virus later became known as the 2019 novel coronavirus, and the illness caused by the virus is COVID-19. The virus rapidly spread across the world, including in Ohio.
While the death and devastation from this pandemic has been widespread, not everyone has felt the effects the same. On May 8, 2020, the Ohio Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights adopted a proposal to undertake a study of civil rights and equity in the delivery of medical and public services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio. I served on the Ohio Advisory Committee that conducted the study, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently released the advisory memorandum that the committee wrote and voted to approve.
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17 Feb 2021
President Joe Biden is readying the release of his amnesty plan that will seek to increase legal immigration levels while legalizing 11 to 22 million illegal aliens a policy prescription that is likely to burden black American communities more than any other.
Biden and elected Democrats, this week, are expected to unveil their amnesty plan that is likely to propose increasing the flow of low-skilled foreign workers to the United States to compete for jobs against unemployed Americans. Similarly, the plan is likely to give green cards to nearly the entire illegal alien population who would be immediately allowed to legally take U.S. jobs.