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U.S. President Joe Biden lauded the U.S. Senate Friday for overwhelmingly passing new legislation aimed at bolstering efforts to combat rising anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill would establish a new Justice Department position to expedite the review of COVID-19-related hate crimes and provide support for local law enforcement agencies to respond to anti-Asian hate violence. It also includes an amendment that would improve hate crime data collection and establish hate crime telephone hotlines.
The amendment was initially introduced as the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act, named after two high-profile victims of hate crimes in recent years, Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer.
Biden Lauds Senate Passage of Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill
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Apr 19, 2021 3:01 PM EDT
Oregon’s Jade District is a 10-block area neighborhood in East Portland that is home to dozens of Asian-owned businesses, from grocery stores to herbal markets, bakeries and restaurants that include a James Beard-recognized Vietnamese soup spot.
But in the first two months of the year, at least 13 businesses there had their windows smashed, which community leaders say was the result of anti-Asian hate fueled by misguided scapegoat rhetoric about COVID-19. A month after the fatal March 16 shootings at Atlanta-area spas that left eight people dead, including six Asian American women, Asian American businesses across the country are reeling from the spate of hate and violence, and some say they’re operating in fear adding to the economic crisis many businesses have been grappling with since the beginning of the pandemic.