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Speak Up Against Racial Profiling

​Professor Xiaoxing Xi, 2020 Andrei Sakharov Prize recipient and physics professor of Temple University, speaks about his ordeal as a racial profiling victim.  "Don’t think this can't happen to you... The right question to ask is whether the entire group of Chinese scientists should be singled out for targeting and put under the suspicion as 'non-traditional collectors' for China.  That is racial profiling.  That is wrong.  We should all speak up against it." (28:57) 
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Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, speaks about concerns of racial profiling against Chinese American scientists such as Sherry Chen and Xiaoxing Xi.  "We need to take this critical issue [of racial profiling] to the next level ... today we face the racial profiling of Chinese American scientists, engineers, students and scholars ... we need education ... we need allies ... we need a national network." (21:31)
Professor Xiaoxing Xi made a compelling argument against racial profiling in his video message accepting the Andrei Sakharov Prize on March 4, 2020.  The 32-minutes video covered not only the wrongful prosecution against him, but also the government's abuse of authority, the obligation to defend openness on univerisity campuses, and the need to protect American competitiveness.  (32:10)

2020/03/04 Andrei Sakharov Prize Talk
2019/11/29 郗小星的故事
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Within two weeks after the New York Times reported the dismissal of the criminal case against Sherry Chen, an award-winning hydrologist at the National Weather Service, a press conference was held on Capitol Hill in May 2015.  On the same day, Professor Xiaoxing Xi, Acting Chair of the Physics Department at the Temple University, was arrested and also accused of espionage-related charges. 

During the press conference, community organizations expressed their concerns of apparent racial profiling in the Sherry Chen case.  The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) announced that 22 CAPAC members signed a letter to then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting an investigation of the Sherry Chen case and a review of the policy, program and pattern or practice of using race or other civil rights classifications that target federal employees.

The pattern of targeting innocent Chinese American scientists was further confirmed by the dismissal of Professor Xi’s case in September 2015.  CAPAC Chair Judy Chu called for a regular medium and platform to facilitate more timely and stronger communications to understand and respond to the growing pattern and concerns.  A group of volunteers was formed to serve this purpose in the Fall of 2015.  This APA Justice website is a product of the group's activities to provide information and facilitate connections and discussions within and beyond the community.


America is Our Home
Rep. Ted Lieu (CA) published an op-ed in the Washington Post on July 16, 2019, titled I have served in the Air Force and in Congress. People still tell me to ‘go back’ to China

APAPA statement | ​OCA statement
APA Justice Task Force is a non-partisan platform to build a sustainable ecosystem to address racial profiling issues and to facilitate, inform, and advocate on selected issues related to justice and fairness for the Asian American community. "
Racial Profiling
A definition of Racial Profiling is "the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense."  In its extreme, it led to the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 and the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.  In more recent times, Chinese American scientists such as Wen Ho Lee, Sherry Chen, and Xiaoxing Xi have been wrongly targeted for espionage-related prosecutions, falling victim as "collateral damage."  Chinese Americans are subject to profiling under what the FBI Director has called a "whole-of-society" approach to address national security concerns.  Read more about about racial profiling of Asian Americans.
Current State
During a time of rising tension between the U.S. and China, an entire group of students, scholars and scientists of Chinese heritage is caught in the crossfires and targeted as potential national security threats to America.  An increasing number of faculty and students have reported that they have been subject to prejudicial comments, unwarranted scrutiny or professional strictures based on their race, ethnicity or national origin.  The current state is alarming.  Read about how community and scientific organizations, universities and higher education institutions , and Congressional leaders are reacting and responding to these growing concerns.
Impacted Persons
​A pattern of racial profiling against Chinese American scientists began to emerge in 2015.  There are real-life victims including a growing list of Sherry Chen, Professor Xiaoxing Xi, Dr. Yanping Chen, and others.
A combination of human mistakes, implicit bias, social stigmatism, explicit prejudice, and racial profiling may explain why some of these innocent individuals were wrongly prosecuted or investigated for years in the first place.  However, the damages done to them and their families are undeniably devastating.  In addition to victims whose cases were dismissed or found not guilty, some agreed to much lesser infractions than the original charges to avoid financial ruins.  Our nation loses their talents and contributions to the society when they are forced to leave the country.  These cases are almost never reported by the government. 
2020 Census
April 1, 2020 is the next census day.  On March 29, 2018, the Census Bureau announced the last-minuite additon of a citizenship question and the use of administrative records in the 2020 Census.  The decisions, made by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, will have adverse impacts on the immigrant communities including Asian Americans, as well as profound long-term effects on the privacy rights for all Americans.  Three federal judges have ruled the addition of citizenship question to be unlawfully and in one case unconsitutional.  The Supreme Court decided on the question in June 2019.  An executive order was then issued to collect administrative data on citizenship from federal agencies.  The issue impacting re-districting will continue.  Read more about the citizenship question and use of administrative data and its current state here, as well as over 900 media reports about its continuing developments.
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