Condemning racist rhetoric targeting Indian and Chinese Americans, reaffirming that immigrants from all backgrounds are vital to the United States, and calling on all elected officials to refrain from language that promotes racial or ethnic division.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1322 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1322

  Condemning racist rhetoric targeting Indian and Chinese Americans,
   reaffirming that immigrants from all backgrounds are vital to the
  United States, and calling on all elected officials to refrain from
           language that promotes racial or ethnic division.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2026

 Mr. Krishnamoorthi (for himself, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Meng, Mr.
    Bera, Ms. Chu, Mr. Subramanyam, and Mr. Thanedar) submitted the
   following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the
                               Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION

  Condemning racist rhetoric targeting Indian and Chinese Americans,
   reaffirming that immigrants from all backgrounds are vital to the
  United States, and calling on all elected officials to refrain from
           language that promotes racial or ethnic division.

Whereas immigrants from all over the world contribute every day to the Nation's
        economy, security, culture, and prosperity;
Whereas all communities in the United States, regardless of race, national
        origin, ethnicity, or religion, deserve to live freely without hateful
        rhetoric, hate crimes, and bigotry being targeted at them;
Whereas Indian Americans and Chinese Americans have long histories in the
        country, including waves of immigrants in the early 1900s and mid 1800s
        respectively;
Whereas economic research has found that Indian and Chinese immigrants and their
        descendants contribute hundreds of billions of dollars to the Nation's
        GDP through spending, support millions of jobs, and own hundreds of
        thousands of businesses, thereby strengthening the long-term fiscal
        outlook of the United States;
Whereas rhetoric that targets individuals based on national origin or ethnicity
        undermines the fundamental American values of equality, pluralism, and
        opportunity, and leads to increased violence and discrimination against
        these communities;
Whereas there has been an alarming rise in anti-Chinese sentiment across the
        United States since March 2020, driven in part by misinformation and
        rhetoric that has stigmatized individuals of Chinese origin in
        connection with the COVID-19 pandemic;
Whereas, since the 2024 Presidential election, there has been an alarming surge
        in anti-Asian hate online, including the proliferation of slurs,
        harassment, and threats of violence across major social media platforms;
Whereas this surge has been driven in significant part by an increase in anti-
        South Asian rhetoric, with online slur usage rising by approximately 75
        percent between November 2024 and January 2025, including documented
        increases in hate messages targeting Indian immigrants across platforms
        such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and X;
Whereas, on or about April 22, 2026, the President amplified a post on Truth
        Social that characterized individuals from India and China in sweeping
        and derogatory terms;
Whereas the content amplified by the President stated that ``a baby here becomes
        an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from China
        or India or some other `hellhole' on the planet'', portraying their
        presence in the United States as degrading the Nation;
Whereas the President shared racist language that suggested that immigrants from
        India and China are ``not like the European Americans of today and their
        ancestors'' and asserted that ``the idea of the melting pot is long
        over'', invoking discriminatory comparisons between immigrant groups;
Whereas the racism promoted by the President further described those aligned
        with protecting birthright citizenship as ``gangsters with laptops'', in
        the context of a broader attack that repeatedly singled out immigrants
        from India and China as abusing the system and ``turn[ing] us into a
        colony of China . . . [and] also India'', thereby reinforcing a
        narrative that casts immigrants and their advocates, particularly those
        of Indian and Chinese origin, as organized, predatory actors undermining
        the United States; and
Whereas the content further asserted that individuals from India and China lack
        loyalty to the United States and invoked harmful stereotypes tied to
        national origin that are not based in fact: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns the racist language propagated by the
        President against individuals of Indian and Chinese origin;
            (2) affirms that immigrants, including Indian Americans and
        Chinese Americans, are vital to the fabric of the United
        States;
            (3) calls on all elected officials, including the
        President, to refrain from using language that promotes racial
        or ethnic division or stereotypes;
            (4) affirms that attacks based on national origin or
        ethnicity are un-American; and
            (5) condemns in the strongest possible terms all forms of
        hate against communities across the United States, including
        Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
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