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“Why should I have to bring my U.S. passport to prove my worthiness when buying property when you guys don’t?” Peter Lai asked the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs during a public hearing in March about S.B. 147, as Texas considered a bill barring certain immigrants from owning property. At the same hearing, Alice Yi, representing Asian Texans for Justice and the Asian American Leadership Council, explained to the committee: “It would put all people who look like me, any Asians, into a third-class citizenship, because we would have to prove our current immigration status and where we come...