1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Anti-Immigrant Violence Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Anti-immigrant violence is on the rise, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reporting an 11.8-percent increase in hate crimes against individuals for 2018 compared to 2017 and an observed shift in crimes against individuals as opposed to property. The FBI data shows that 59.6 percent of hate crimes reported were motivated by race, ethnicity, or ancestry. In addition, the 24 hate crime murders recorded in 2018 are the highest ever reported by the FBI since it began tracking hate crimes in 1991. Since 2014, FBI hate crime statistics have shown an increasing trend in hate crimes, with the highest yearly gains so far reported for 2017 at 17 percent. (2) The vast majority of the reported hate crimes are related to race, ethnicity, or ancestry. According to the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Hispanics experience close to double the rate of hate crime victimization that non-Hispanic Whites (1.3 vs 0.7 per 1,000). The 2019 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data shows that non-US citizens are victimized at a rate of approximately 12.5 victims per 1,000 non-US citizens. (3) BJS has shown a precipitous decline in reporting of hate crimes since 2014, with BJS’s NCVS data showing that between 2013 and 2017 more than half of all hate crimes (>100,000) went unreported annually. NCVS 2019 statistics show that after declining by more than 60 percent in the past 21 years, the number of violent crime victims has steadily increased since 2015; and that the rate of unreported violent crimes continues to rise