Senate Democrats call on Trump to work with them to combat anti-Asian bigotry

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• A majority of the Senate Democratic coalition, including Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, signed on to a letter pledging to work with President Donald Trump to combat the rise in anti-Asian bias.
• Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, said that a reporting center established by her organization has received word of close to 1,500 incidents of anti-Asian bias over the last month.
• The senators' letter argues that the president's use of the term "Wuhan virus" contributes to the stigma against people of Asian descent, but the senators nonetheless express a willingness to jointly "confront the racism that so many encounter in their daily lives."
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Over two dozen Senate Democrats have signed a letter to US President Donald Trump concerning the rise in harassment and hate crimes against people of Asian descent amid the COVID-19 pandemic, pledging to work with him "to confront the racism that so many encounter in their daily lives."

In the April 21 letter, the senators — from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to independent Senator Bernie Sanders, with 29 in all — say they "are alarmed by the severity and increasing frequency of hate crimes and race-based harassment against Asians and members of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community."

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