The historic neighborhoods of Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon in Seattle's International District are not part of Washington's 1st Congressional District. They belong to District 7. But the Asian American communities in Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Bothell, and across WA-01 are very much part of this campaign and what happens in Seattle's Asian neighborhoods matters deeply to them, and to all of us.

The families and business owners of Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon are largely immigrants or the children of immigrants people who followed the legal immigration process, built businesses from nothing, and created some of the most culturally vibrant and economically productive communities in the Pacific Northwest. They did everything right. And for years, they have been failed by the very officials elected to protect them.

To the people of these communities. Kincaid sees you. I hear you. And I will stand with you not just in words, but in policy and in action.

What These Communities Have Endured

Since 2020, anti-Asian hate crimes surged across the United States at a rate that shocked the country and the Seattle area was no exception. Between 2020 and 2023, reported hate crimes targeting Asian Americans increased dramatically in cities across the country. Elderly Asian Americans were attacked on streets and in parks. Business owners faced harassment and vandalism. Families that had built lives here over decades began to feel unsafe in their own neighborhoods.

At the same time, Seattle's Chinatown International District became one of the most visible examples of how the city's homelessness, drug, and public safety crisis falls hardest on communities that are already vulnerable. Encampments, open drug use, and street disorder concentrated around the neighborhood. Businesses that had operated for generations began closing. Residents who had lived there for decades told reporters they no longer felt safe walking to the corner store.

The response from city leadership was inadequate. For years, urgent pleas from community leaders, business owners, and residents were met with promises that led nowhere. The philosophy that guided Seattle's approach that enforcing basic public order was somehow incompatible with compassion produced predictable results. The most vulnerable communities bore the greatest cost.

These are not abstract policy failures. They are human failures. Real people lost businesses their families had built over generations. Real people stopped going out at night. Real people left neighborhoods their communities had called home for more than a century.

The Leadership Failure

Representative Pramila Jayapal has represented District 7 which includes the Chinatown-International District since 2017. During that time, she has been one of the most ideologically driven members of Congress, focused primarily on advancing national progressive agendas rather than the immediate, practical needs of the people she represents.

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