Policy leaders are voicing deep concerns over Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint.
“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 new report from Stop AAPI Hate has sounded the alarm, revealing a troubling surge in anti-South Asian slurs, slogans, and xenophobic rhetoric.
Kamala Harris and Usha Vance’s ascendency to the national stage in July 2024 has marked a spike in anti- South Asian hate.
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.
Research has shown a correlation between hate online and offline, said Stop AAPI Hate co-founder Manjusha Kulkarni.
Experts warn that Plan 2025 could also have far-reaching negative impacts on key areas such as climate policy and health care reform.
Project 2025 seeks to promote extreme policies that reduce opportunities for migrants and freedoms for women, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
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.
New polling by Stop AAPI Hate and NORC at the University of Chicago showed the Asian American community faced pervasive levels of hate in 2023.
