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One Nation Partners 18 Million Rising (National) California Healthy Nail National Council of Asian Salon Collaborative AAPI Progressive Action (National) Pacific Americans CaliforniaHealth+ Advocates AAPIs for Civic Empowerment National Council of Asian Pacific Education Fund (California) Center for Empowering Refugees One Nation Built Islander Physicians (NCAPIP) & Immigrants (CERI) Alameda County Community Food Bank Center for Pan Asian Community National Immigration Law Center Alameda Health Consortium Services (CPACS) National Network for Immigrant API Legal Outreach Charles B. Wang Community & Refugee Rights on the Strength APIAVote National Health Center APICHA Community Health Center Chinatown Community National Queer API Alliance Development Center (California) Art Hack National Tongan American Society (Utah) Chinese for Affirmative Action Asian & Pacific Islander New York Immigrant Coalition of Immigrants American Health Forum Chinese Progressive Association North Carolina Asian Americans Together Asian American Action Fund Coalition of Asian American Leaders Community Clinic Consortium (California) Asian American Senior North East Medical Services One Nation Commission Report Citizens Service Center Community Health Center (NEMS) (California) Network (CHCN) (California) Asian Americans Advancing Justice - DC OCA- Asian Pacific Americans Democratic Asian Americans of Virginia Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Advocates (National) Los Angeles Desis for Progress October 2019 Oklahoma Micronesian Coalition Asian Americans Advancing East Bay Asian Local Development Justice Affiliation Corporation (California) Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Asian Americans Advancing Justice - East Bay Community Foundation Community Alliance (OCAPICA) Atlanta East Bay Korean American Progressive Vietnamese American Asian Americans for Community Senior Service Center Organization (PIVOT) (National) Involvement (AACI) Emgage (Florida) Asian Americans in Action Empowering Pacific Islander SEIU/iAmerica (National) Asian Americans Rising Communities (EPIC) South Asian Americans Leading Asian Community Collaborative (East Bay) Filipino Advocates for Justice (California) Together (SAALT) Hella Heart Oakland Giving Circle Asian Community Development South Asians for America Council (Nevada) Hepatitis B Foundation South Cove Community Health Asian Counseling & Referral Services Hmong American Partnership Center (Massachusetts) Asian Health Services (California) Hmong National Development Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Asian Immigrant Women Advocates HOPE Clinic (Texas) Asian Law Alliance (California) IDIC Filipino Senior & Family Services Southeast Asian Mutual Asian Pacific American Labor Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity Assistance Association Coalition Alliance (National) (SEAMAAC) (Philadelphia) International Community Health Services Asian Pacific Development Center (APDC) Japanese American Citizens League The Unity Council Asian Pacific Environmental Kahili-Palama Health Center (Hawaii) Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center (East Bay) Network (California) KAYA: Filipino Americans for Progress Asian Pacific Fund Vietnamese American Korean American Association Roundtable (California) Asian Pacific Institute on Gender- of Greater Cleveland Based Violence (National) Korean American Center Vietnamese American Young Leaders Asian Pacific Partners for Association of New Orleans Empowerment Advocacy & Korean American Community Leadership (APPEAL) (National) Foundation - San Francisco Waianae Comprehensive Coast Asian Prisoner Support Korean Community Center (Bay Area) Health Center (Hawaii) Committee (California) Korean Community Services (KCS) Asian Services in Action, Inc. Korean Resource Center (Ohio) La Clinica de La Raza ISBN 978-0-9908255-0-0 Association of Asian Pacific Community 90000> Mālama I Ke Ola Health Center Health Organizations (National) National Asian Pacific American Banteay Srei (California) Women's Forum (NAPAWF) Buddhist Church of Oakland National Coalition for Asian Buena Vista United Methodist Pacific American Community 9 780990 825500 Church (California) Development (CAPACD) Commissioners Co-Chair Sherry Hirota David Chiu, MPP, Esq. Karthick Ramakrishnan, PhD One Nation AAPI Chair, California API Legislative Caucus, Professor, UC Riverside CEO, Asian Health Services California State Assembly (AD 17) School of Public Policy Co-Chair Mike Honda Marielena Hincapié, Esq. Kyu Rhee, MPP, MD Former U.S. Congressman Executive Director Vice President and Chief Health Offi cer (California CD 17) National Immigration Law Center IBM* Luisa Blue, RN Kathreen Khavari, MSc Paul Song, MD Executive Vice President Actress, Immigrant Rights Activist COO/CMO SEIU and Writer NKMax America, Inc. Rob Bonta, Esq. Tung Nguyen, MD Helen Zia Assistant Majority Leader, Chair Author, Last Boat Out of Shanghai and California State Assembly (AD 18) AAPI Progressive Action Asian American Dreams Daniel Chao, MA, MALD, PhD Ninez Ponce, PhD Business Leader; Former President and Professor, UC Los Angeles CEO, Bechtel China Fielding School of Public Health *IBM listed for affi liation only Advisors Teresita Batayola, MSUA • Ignatius Bau, Esq • Tanya Broder • Adam P. Carbullido • Wilma Chan, MA Art Chen, MD • Gail Christopher, DN • Reverend Norman Fong • Viet Nguyen, PhD • Peggy Saika Catherine Tactaquin • Winston F. Wong, MD, MS • Anthony E. Wright Immigrants’ Stories Are America’s Stories From the One Nation Commission Co-Chairs, Sherry Hirota and Mike Honda In 2018, the Trump Administration proposed radical change to a legacy “Public Charge” test that would deny or remove permanent resident status from lawful immigrants who may have used—or may possibly use in the future— food, housing, or medical benefi ts (such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing) for which they are eligible. In addition, new factors will be applied to immigrants to deny permanent residence, including their age (too young or too old), educational level, and English profi ciency. These are contrary to several prior decades of immigration policy and practice. Story aft er story of immigrants in this country refl ects the proud tradition of hard work, sacrifi ce, and perseverance. The immigrant narrative is about valuing family, fulfi lling civic duty, and continually striving to make things better for community, society, and the collective whole—generation aft er generation. Yet the impressive history of immigrants in the U.S. has a parallel drama: anti-immigrant fervor, scapegoating, hysteria, and violence. The current wave of anti-immigrant attacks is as huge and ominous as a tsunami. The Public Charge rule, with its convoluted and layered stipulations, serves to cover up an explicit agenda, articulated by Jeff Sessions and Steven Miller, to decrease legal immigration without legal oversight. False and distorted claims about immigrants stealing jobs from Americans aim to stoke fear and resentment. Scare tactics, divisive language, and white supremacist rage are on the rise; witness the mass shootings in California, Texas, and Ohio, and terrorist hate crimes against places of worship in Pennsylvania and New York. 1 We have been here before. In the 1970s economic downturn, the loss of auto manufacturing jobs was outrageously blamed on the superior quality of Japanese-made cars. Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, was singled out because he looked Jap- anese; in that racialized climate of hate in Michigan, he was beaten to death by two White autoworkers wielding a baseball bat. Immigrants were targeted with California’s Proposition 187, not only denying health care to eligible residents, but forc- ing doctors and teachers to turn in patients and students for deportation. In the 1990s, “welfare reform” not only cut ben- efits to immigrants but also increased costs and suffering by narrowing access to Head Start programs, and prenatal, labor and delivery care. Now we have the lessons of history and a trail of hard battles, with some wins along the way. We know that anti-immigrant scapegoating can be reversed. We have seen Latino Americans work hard for representation, wisely gauging the body politic, putting in place leaders who make and implement fair and ethical In 2019, millions of law abiding immigrants, including many policies and laws. Because of our collective fight, the narrative Asian Americans, who enrolled in health care insurance under in California is one that welcomes and protects immigrants. the visionary Affordable Care Act, are now threatened with Not so long ago, some African Americans and Asian Ameri- losing everything because of the proposed changes in the Pub- cans were on the fence in the fight for immigrant rights. The lic Charge rule. Courageous, honest leaders are speaking out movement was wrongly characterized as exclusively Latino or from every sector across America. A record-shattering 266,000 segmented even further as undocumented versus documented. people from all 50 states, and such organizations as the Amer- Yes, all of our communities can be subject to the constant bar- ican Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Asso- rage of lies about each other, can be susceptible to fear and ciation, are all saying that Public Charge is mean-spirited and anger toward the “other.” But the truth is they are coming after will hurt children and families, public health, civil society, and all of us—anyone who is not deemed a “real” American. the ideals for which America stands. Asians are the largest component of legal immigrants coming A colleague

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