Pacific Islanders in what is now considered to be the United States predates the founding of our Nation. (10) In 1993, Congress passed a resolution that was signed into law formally apologizing for the United States role in the illegal overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, which resulted in the suppression of the inherent sovereignty of the Native Hawaiian people. (11) Twelve thousand Chinese laborers worked in atrocious conditions to build the Transcontinental Railroad, many dying from harsh weather conditions and the dangers of handling explosives. (12) After the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigrants from immigrating to the United States, Japanese were hired. After the Japanese were banned from immigrating due to the Gentleman’s Agreement of 1907, which halted immigration from Japan, Filipinos were hired under 3-year contracts. (13) Filipino farm workers helped found the farm worker labor movement. (14) The Immigration Act of 1917 restricted immigration to the United States by barring immigration from the Asia-Pacific zone. (15) The Immigration Act of 1924 set a national origin quota to deter immigration. (16) The Immigration Act of 1965 made family unification and skills-based migration the bedrock principle of immigration to the United States. (17) The United States conducted nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands have made parts of the island nation uninhabitable and caused forced migration and health complications that still impact the community today. (18) The United States ratified a Compact of Free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau enabling citizens of these Pacific Island nations to legally migrate to the United States visa-free while the United States retains certain strategic military rights over their territorial waters. (19) In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the Refugee Act of 1980 helped more than 500,000 Southeast Asians gain permanent resident status in the United