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WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, today raised alarm over rising Islamophobia and antisemitism during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing marking 25 years since 9/11, days after the killing of three people at a San Diego mosque.
“More than twenty years after 9/11 happened, Islamophobia in the U.S. has not gone away,” Krishnamoorthi said. “Just this weekend, we saw the horrific killing of three people at a San Diego mosque.”
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today reintroduced the Hate Crimes Commission Act alongside U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and House co-leads Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), bicameral legislation to strengthen the nation’s response to hate crimes, improve hate crime reporting, and identify strategies to prevent bias-motivated violence.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, a naturalized citizen who immigrated to the United States as an infant, today released the following statement in response to Representative Nancy Mace’s proposed constitutional amendment to bar naturalized citizens from serving in Congress, the federal judiciary, and Senate-confirmed government positions:
