“Immigration agents could call in the right to enter our private homes, schools, places of business and even houses of worship,” says Manjusha Kulkarni of AAPI Equity Alliance
A recent report from Stop AAPI Hate found that the number of anti-South Asian slurs, slogans and phrases increased from nearly 23,000 to more than 46,000 between January 2023 and August 2024.
In the United States, COVID-19 cases have not disappeared, and neither have the hate crimes that have plagued the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities since the pandemic began.