Sweeping Texas law barring Chinese land ownership is racist, say critics

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Supporters say the law is prompted by concerns over national security, to keep China’s growing appetite for property abroad in check.

Critics maintain it legitimises harmful and racist claims about immigrants, and can encourage hostility and increase the incidence of anti-Asian violence. They say it sends the message that Asian Americans are unwelcome, that they do not belong.

The US is under pervasive threat from the Chinese Communist Party, from Russia, from Iran and from North Korea

It (the law) does nothing more than send us backwards to a time when Asian Americans were openly told they didn’t belong

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