The legislation would require police track hate crimes and report them to the federal government.
Data from the US Department of Education, reveals that students with disabilities and Black students are disproportionately affected by the practices.
The number of anti-Hispanic hate crimes rose to 527 from 485 in 2018, while there were 953 reports of anti-Jewish crimes, a 14% surge over the previous year.
"My administration's going to look like America," Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden said earlier this year.
To see the daughter of an Indian woman and a Black man, at a time when police brutality and anti-immigration rhetoric are prevalent, has offered many Americans a sense of hope.
The United States reached an impressive new early voter turnout record, with more than 100 million ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election before the polls opened on Tuesday.
“You can't force firms to hire Americans to stop migration—that's not happening.”
