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RESOLUTION 2021-018 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE SANTA ANA CITY COUNCIL <br />CONDEMNING RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND HATE <br />AGAINST ASIAN AMERICANS <br />WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and <br />advancing social justice for people of all races, ethnicities, and national origins; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana is home to an estimated 332,318 residents, of <br />which 12.1 percent —or approximately 40,210 residents —are of Asian or Pacific Islander <br />descent; and <br />WHEREAS, the first Asians arrived in what is now the continental United States in <br />the 1500s but are still perceived as "perpetual foreigners"; and <br />WHEREAS, no city, including the City of Santa Ana, has escaped the history of <br />hateful actions against Asians; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County's first Chinatown, located in the heart of Santa Ana, <br />was burned to the ground due to racist and xenophobic falsehoods spread about its Asian <br />residents; and <br />WHEREAS, the United States has a long history of anti -Asian violence and <br />discrimination, including the Page Act of 1875 which prohibited Chinese women from <br />entering the United States, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which prohibited any <br />Chinese laborer from immigrating to the United States, the internment of Japanese <br />Americans during World War II as authorized by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt <br />through Executive Order 9066 in 1942, and murders of Asian Americans such as Vincent <br />Chin; and <br />WHEREAS, since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, racist <br />and xenophobic rhetoric such as "kung flu" and "China virus" was proliferated by former <br />President Trump, which contributed to an unprecedented and alarming rise in reported <br />hate crimes against individuals, communities, and businesses perceived to be Asian <br />throughout the United States; and <br />WHEREAS, from March 19, 2020 through February 28, 2021, Stop AAPI Hate, a <br />national coalition aimed at addressing anti -Asian discrimination amid the COVID-19 <br />pandemic, received reports of over 3,795 hate incidents in the United States against those <br />believed to be Asian; and <br />WHEREAS, throughout American history, Asian women have been fetishized, <br />sexualized, and objectified; and <br />Resolution No. 2021-018 <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />