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clinical recommendation to read: ‘‘The
WPSI recommends screening for type 2
diabetes in women with a history of
GDM who are not currently pregnant
and who have not previously been
diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Initial
testing should ideally occur within the
first year postpartum and can be
conducted as early as 4–6 weeks
postpartum. Women who were not
screened in the first year postpartum or
women with a negative initial
postpartum screening test result should
be screened at least every 3 years for a
minimum of 10 years after pregnancy.
For those with a positive screening test
result in the early postpartum period
(i.e., 4–6 weeks postpartum), testing
should be repeated at least 6 months
postpartum to confirm the diagnosis of
diabetes regardless of the type of initial
test (e.g., fasting plasma glucose,
hemoglobin A1c, oral glucose tolerance
test). Repeat testing is also indicated for
women screened with hemoglobin A1c
in the first 6 months postpartum
regardless of whether the test results are
positive or negative because the
hemoglobin A1c test is less accurate
during the first 6 months postpartum.’’
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Discussion of Updated Clinical
Recommendations
Screening for Diabetes in Pregnancy
WPSI recommended three updates to
the Guideline on Screening for GDM.
The first change is a revision to the title
of the Guideline from ‘‘Screening for
GDM’’ to ‘‘Screening for Diabetes in
Pregnancy.’’ This change to the title was
made for consistency with the clinical
recommendation, which includes
screening for gestational diabetes and
screening for preexisting diabetes, as the
previous title described a more limited
scope in screening. The second update
recommended by WPSI is to change
language in the second sentence of the
recommendation from ‘‘diabetes
mellitus’’ to ‘‘type 2 diabetes or GDM.’’
This change reflects that ‘‘diabetes
mellitus’’ is commonly described as
type 2 diabetes. Third, WPSI modified
the recommendation by relocating the
information on specific types of
screening to the Implementation
Considerations section of the Guideline.
The existing Guideline recommends the
2-step approach, because of its high
sensitivity and specificity. In its
recommended update, WPSI continues
to recommend the 2-step approach, but
has relocated it to the Implementation
Considerations section, and also added
the 1-step approach to the list of
screening modalities in the
Implementation Considerations section,
because both approaches are acceptable
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screening tests based on studies
described in the updated 2021 United
States Preventive Services Task Force
evidence review. Both the 1-step and 2step screening modalities are within the
scope of this Guideline.
Screening for Type 2 Diabetes After
Pregnancy
WPSI also recommended five updates
to the Guideline on Screening for
Diabetes Mellitus After Pregnancy. First,
WPSI recommended updating the title
of the Guideline by changing it from
‘‘Screening for Diabetes Mellitus After
Pregnancy’’ to ‘‘Screening for Type 2
Diabetes After Pregnancy.’’ This change
was made because ‘‘diabetes mellitus’’
is now more commonly described as
type 2 diabetes. Second, WPSI
recommended removing the reference to
Table 1 based upon feedback from the
clinical community, noting that the
table might be confusing and could be
simplified in written format, and
recommended including this
information in narrative form. Third,
WPSI recommends screening for
‘‘women who are not screened in the
first year postpartum’’ and ‘‘women
with a positive screening test result in
early postpartum.’’ This
recommendation was added to ensure
screening for women who were not
screened postpartum for various reasons
(e.g., scheduling, lack of transportation,
availability of testing, etc.), and to
reflect that universal screening for
women with a history of GDM is more
appropriate than risk-based screening
because the risk of developing type 2
diabetes is high among all such
individuals. Fourth, WPSI also
recommended adding new language to
recommend repeat testing after 6
months postpartum to confirm a
positive test result from the early
postpartum period (4–6 weeks
postpartum). Fifth, WPSI also
recommended adding new language to
the Guideline explaining that
hemoglobin A1c tests conducted within
the first 6 months postpartum should be
repeated because the test is less accurate
when conducted during the first 6
months postpartum. Screening for type
2 diabetes after pregnancy as described
in this Guideline, including follow-up
diabetes screening testing, is within the
scope of this Guideline.
Members of the public can view each
complete updated draft
recommendation by accessing the
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Carole Johnson,
Administrator.
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Announcement of the President’s
Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and
Pacific Islanders Meeting and
Solicitation for Written Comment
Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of the Secretary,
Office for Civil Rights, White House
Initiative on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
ACTION: Notice of meeting and
solicitation for written comment.
AGENCY:
As required by the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) is hereby giving notice
that the President’s Advisory
Commission on Asian Americans,
Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
will hold a virtual, two-day meeting on
December 5 and December 6, 2022.
DATES: The Commission will meet on
December 5, 2022, and December 6,
2022, from 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)
to approximately 7:00 p.m. ET on both
days. The confirmed time and agenda
will be posted on the website for the
President’s Advisory Commission on
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians,
and Pacific Islanders: https://
www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/
commission/ when this
information becomes available.
Written comments, in response to the
questions listed below, will be accepted
via email at AANHPICommission@
hhs.gov with the subject line
‘‘PACAANHPI: Response to <insert the
issue and question>.’’ To be assured
consideration in the development of
future recommendations, written
comments must be submitted and
received at the email address provided
above, no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on
Thursday, December 1, 2022.
Submissions received after the deadline
will not be reviewed.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be live
streamed. Registration is required
through the following link: https://
www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-thepresidents-advisory-commission-on-aaand-nhpis-registration-449829250397.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Caroline Goon, Designated Federal
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Officer, President’s Advisory
Commission on Asian Americans,
Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders,
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of the Secretary, Office
for Civil Rights, Hubert H. Humphrey
Building, Room 515F, 200
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20201; email: AANHPICommission@
hhs.gov; telephone: (202) 619–0403, fax:
(202) 619–3818.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
meeting is the fourth in a series of
Federal advisory committee meetings
regarding the development of
recommendations to promote equity,
justice, and opportunity for Asian
American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific
Islander (AA and NHPI) communities.
The meeting is open to the public and
will be live streamed. The Commission,
co-chaired by HHS Secretary Xavier
Becerra and the U.S. Trade
Representative Ambassador Katherine
Tai, will advise the President on: the
development, monitoring, and
coordination of executive branch efforts
to advance equity, justice, and
opportunity for AA and NHPI
communities in the United States,
including efforts to close gaps in health,
socioeconomic, employment, and
educational outcomes; policies to
address and end anti-Asian bias,
xenophobia, racism, and nativism, and
opportunities for the executive branch
to advance inclusion, belonging, and
public awareness of the diversity and
accomplishments of AA and NHPI
people, cultures, and histories; policies,
programs, and initiatives to prevent,
report, respond to, and track anti-Asian
hate crimes and hate incidents; ways in
which the Federal Government can
build on the capacity and contributions
of AA and NHPI communities through
equitable Federal funding, grantmaking,
and employment opportunities; policies
and practices to improve research and
equitable data disaggregation regarding
AA and NHPI communities; policies
and practices to improve language
access services to ensure AA and NHPI
communities can access Federal
programs and services; and strategies to
increase public-and private-sector
collaboration, and community
involvement in improving the safety
and socioeconomic, health, educational,
occupational, and environmental wellbeing of AA and NHPI communities.
Information is available on the
President’s Advisory Commission on
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians,
and Pacific Islanders website at https://
www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/
commission/. The names of
the 25 members of the President’s
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Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and
Pacific Islanders are available at https://
www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/
commission/commissioners/.
Purpose of Meeting: The President’s
Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and
Pacific Islanders, authorized by
Executive Order 14031, will meet to
discuss full and draft recommendations
by the Commission’s six Subcommittees
on ways to advance equity, justice, and
opportunity for Asian American, Native
Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander
communities. The Subcommittees are:
Belonging, Inclusion, Anti-Asian Hate,
Anti-Discrimination; Data
Disaggregation; Language Access;
Economic Equity; Health Equity; and
Immigration and Citizenship Status.
Background: Asian American, Native
Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander
communities are among the fastest
growing racial and ethnic populations
in the United States according to the
U.S. Census Bureau. However, in recent
years, AA and NHPI individuals have
faced increasing hate crimes and
incidents that threaten their safety, as
well as harmful stereotypes that often
ignore socioeconomic, health, and
educational disparities impacting these
diverse communities.
Tragic acts of anti-Asian violence
increased during the COVID–19
pandemic, casting a shadow of fear and
grief over many AA and NHPI
communities, in particular East Asian
communities. Long before this
pandemic, AA and NHPI communities
in the United States, including South
Asian and Southeast Asian
communities, have faced persistent
xenophobia, religious discrimination,
racism, and violence. At the same time,
AA and NHPI communities are
overrepresented in the pandemic’s
essential workforce in healthcare, food
supply, education, and childcare, with
more than four million AA and NHPIs
manning the frontlines throughout the
pandemic.
Many AA and NHPI communities,
and in particular Native Hawaiian and
Pacific Islander communities, have also
been disproportionately burdened by
the COVID–19 public health crisis.
Evidence suggests that Native
Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are
three times more likely to contract
COVID–19 compared to white people
and nearly twice as likely to die from
the disease. On top of these health
inequities, many AA and NHPI workers,
families, and small businesses have
faced devastating economic losses
during this crisis, which must be
addressed.
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The challenges AA and NHPI
communities face are often exacerbated
by a lack of adequate data
disaggregation and language access. The
President’s Advisory Commission on
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians,
and Pacific Islanders works to advise
the President on executive branch
efforts to address these challenges and
advance equity, justice, and opportunity
for AA and NHPI communities.
Public Participation at Meeting:
Members of the public are invited to
view the Commission meeting.
Registration is required through the
following link: https://
www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-thepresidents-advisory-commission-on-aaand-nhpis-registration-449829250397.
Please note that there will be no
opportunity for oral public comments
during the meeting of the Commission.
However, written comments are
welcomed throughout the development
of the Commission’s recommendations
to promote equity, justice, and
opportunity for Asian Americans,
Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
and may be emailed to
AANHPICommission@hhs.gov at any
time. Respond concisely and in plain
language. You may use any structure or
layout that presents your information
well. You may respond to some or all
of our questions, and you can suggest
other factors or relevant questions. You
may also include links to online
material or interactive presentations.
Clearly mark any proprietary
information and place it in its own
section or file. Your response will
become Government property, and we
may publish some of its non-proprietary
content.
The Commission is particularly
interested in soliciting written
comments on the following questions:
1. Belonging, Inclusion, Anti-Asian
Hate, Anti-Discrimination
Subcommittee Questions:
a. Please describe policies, programs,
models, or best practices that have been
effective in reducing race-based
violence or bias targeting AA and NHPI
communities, including any programs
geared toward children or youth.
b. What policies, programs, models, or
best practices, if any, have reduced
incidents of gun violence in AA and
NHPI communities?
c. What barriers have AA and NHPI
military servicemembers faced in
seeking religious accommodations from
their respective branch of the U.S.
military?
2. Data Disaggregation Subcommittee
Questions:
a. What datasets do AA and NHPI
communities identify as being
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particularly important for the Federal
Government to prioritize for
disaggregated data collection, analysis,
and reporting?
b. How can existing Federal
Government datasets be improved in
terms of questions, survey structures,
categories, collection methodology, data
accessibility, and more in order to better
serve community-based organizations
and ensure that AA and NHPI
population data is useful for further
analysis?
c. What are some ideas on how the
Federal Government can better partner
with community-based organizations,
think tanks, and academic institutions
for secondary data analysis?
3. Language Access Subcommittee
Questions:
a. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 requires recipients of Federal
financial assistance to provide
meaningful access to their programs to
people who are limited English
proficient (LEP). How can the Federal
Government ensure that recipients of
Federal financial assistance conduct
effective outreach to LEP communities,
provide language access and support
AAPI LEP communities, including those
that speak languages of lesser diffusion?
Examples, models, or promising
practices are welcomed.
b. Executive Order 13166, Improving
Access to Services for Persons with
Limited English Proficiency, requires
the Federal Government to provide LEP
individuals with meaningful access to
federally-conducted programs and
activities. Each Federal agency was also
asked under Executive Order 13985,
Advancing Racial Equity and Support
for Underserved Communities Through
the Federal Government, to identify
potential barriers that underserved
communities and individuals may face
to enrollment in and access to benefits
and services in Federal programs. Given
the Federal Government’s commitment
to language access and racial equity,
how can the Federal Government better
conduct outreach to and address the
needs of AA and NHPI LEP
communities, including those that speak
languages of lesser diffusion? Examples,
models, or promising practices are
welcomed.
c. How can the Federal Government
promote the preservation, teaching,
learning of, maintenance and utilization
of AA and NHPI languages?
4. Immigration and Citizenship Status
Subcommittee Questions:
a. What information should the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security’s U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS) prioritize for translation, and
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what Asian and Pacific Islander
languages should be prioritized?
b. What are some ways for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security’s U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) to improve cultural sensitivity,
equity, and language access in their
interactions with the AAPI community?
c. How should the Federal
Government improve access to
humanitarian protections, such as
asylum and victim protections for AAPI
community members?
d. The citizens of the Freely
Associated States of Palau, the Marshall
Islands and the Federated States of
Micronesia may live, study, and work in
the United States and its territories
without a visa. This arrangement is
pursuant to compact treaties signed
with these countries and in recognition
of the special relationship they have
with the United States. They are lawful
residents and do not have immigrant
status nor are they eligible to apply for
permanent resident status. They are
currently eligible for some Federal
programs but not others. For example,
they are eligible for the Women Infant
and Children’s Program (WIC), but not
SNAP (Food Stamps). Please provide
examples of the ways in which this lack
of access to Federal benefits and
programs has impacted citizens from the
Freely Associated States?
e. Please provide input and
recommendations on ways to reduce the
burden on individuals and families
subject to long-term orders of
supervision following final orders of
removal. Many Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders have final orders of
removal and continue to live in the
United States on orders of supervision.
For example, some individuals have
been required to check-in with U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), sometimes yearly or more
frequently, for over 20 years. Each ICE
field office has the authority to decide
the frequency of check-ins for an
individual on an order of supervision,
resulting in often burdensome and
traumatic, non-uniform check-in
schedules.
i. How do the current validity periods
for Employment Authorization
Documents (EAD) affect individuals
with a long-term order of supervision?
How would extending the validity
period for EADs issued to this
population impact their livelihood?
ii. What positive equities should ICE
consider in determining removals and
in the exercise of prosecutorial
discretion?
Authority: Executive Order 14031.
The President’s Advisory Commission
on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians,
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and Pacific Islanders (Commission) is
governed by provisions of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), Public
Law 92–463, as amended (5 U.S.C.
App.), which sets forth standards for the
formation and use of Federal advisory
committees.
Krystal Ka‘ai,
Executive Director, White House Initiative on
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and
Pacific Islanders, President’s Advisory
Commission on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Meeting and
Solicitation for Written Comment
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, White House Initiative on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
ACTION: Notice of meeting and solicitation for written comment.
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SUMMARY: As required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is hereby giving notice
that the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders will hold a virtual, two-day meeting
on December 5 and December 6, 2022.
DATES: The Commission will meet on December 5, 2022, and December 6,
2022, from 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) to approximately 7:00 p.m. ET on
both days. The confirmed time and agenda will be posted on the website
for the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/ when this information becomes available.
Written comments, in response to the questions listed below, will
be accepted via email at [email protected] with the subject line
``PACAANHPI: Response to .'' To be
assured consideration in the development of future recommendations,
written comments must be submitted and received at the email address
provided above, no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday, December 1,
2022. Submissions received after the deadline will not be reviewed.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be live streamed. Registration is required
through the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-the-presidents-advisory-commission-on-aa-and-nhpis-registration-449829250397.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caroline Goon, Designated Federal
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Officer, President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of the Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, Hubert H.
Humphrey Building, Room 515F, 200 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC
20201; email: [email protected]; telephone: (202) 619-0403, fax:
(202) 619-3818.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting is the fourth in a series of
Federal advisory committee meetings regarding the development of
recommendations to promote equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian
American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI)
communities. The meeting is open to the public and will be live
streamed. The Commission, co-chaired by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
and the U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai, will advise
the President on: the development, monitoring, and coordination of
executive branch efforts to advance equity, justice, and opportunity
for AA and NHPI communities in the United States, including efforts to
close gaps in health, socioeconomic, employment, and educational
outcomes; policies to address and end anti-Asian bias, xenophobia,
racism, and nativism, and opportunities for the executive branch to
advance inclusion, belonging, and public awareness of the diversity and
accomplishments of AA and NHPI people, cultures, and histories;
policies, programs, and initiatives to prevent, report, respond to, and
track anti-Asian hate crimes and hate incidents; ways in which the
Federal Government can build on the capacity and contributions of AA
and NHPI communities through equitable Federal funding, grantmaking,
and employment opportunities; policies and practices to improve
research and equitable data disaggregation regarding AA and NHPI
communities; policies and practices to improve language access services
to ensure AA and NHPI communities can access Federal programs and
services; and strategies to increase public-and private-sector
collaboration, and community involvement in improving the safety and
socioeconomic, health, educational, occupational, and environmental
well-being of AA and NHPI communities.
Information is available on the President's Advisory Commission on
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders website at
https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/. The names of
the 25 members of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders are available at
https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/commissioners/.
Purpose of Meeting: The President's Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, authorized by
Executive Order 14031, will meet to discuss full and draft
recommendations by the Commission's six Subcommittees on ways to
advance equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian American, Native
Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. The Subcommittees are:
Belonging, Inclusion, Anti-Asian Hate, Anti-Discrimination; Data
Disaggregation; Language Access; Economic Equity; Health Equity; and
Immigration and Citizenship Status.
Background: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander
communities are among the fastest growing racial and ethnic populations
in the United States according to the U.S. Census Bureau. However, in
recent years, AA and NHPI individuals have faced increasing hate crimes
and incidents that threaten their safety, as well as harmful
stereotypes that often ignore socioeconomic, health, and educational
disparities impacting these diverse communities.
Tragic acts of anti-Asian violence increased during the COVID-19
pandemic, casting a shadow of fear and grief over many AA and NHPI
communities, in particular East Asian communities. Long before this
pandemic, AA and NHPI communities in the United States, including South
Asian and Southeast Asian communities, have faced persistent
xenophobia, religious discrimination, racism, and violence. At the same
time, AA and NHPI communities are overrepresented in the pandemic's
essential workforce in healthcare, food supply, education, and
childcare, with more than four million AA and NHPIs manning the
frontlines throughout the pandemic.
Many AA and NHPI communities, and in particular Native Hawaiian and
Pacific Islander communities, have also been disproportionately
burdened by the COVID-19 public health crisis. Evidence suggests that
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are three times more likely to
contract COVID-19 compared to white people and nearly twice as likely
to die from the disease. On top of these health inequities, many AA and
NHPI workers, families, and small businesses have faced devastating
economic losses during this crisis, which must be addressed.
The challenges AA and NHPI communities face are often exacerbated
by a lack of adequate data disaggregation and language access. The
President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians,
and Pacific Islanders works to advise the President on executive branch
efforts to address these challenges and advance equity, justice, and
opportunity for AA and NHPI communities.
Public Participation at Meeting: Members of the public are invited
to view the Commission meeting. Registration is required through the
following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-the-presidents-advisory-commission-on-aa-and-nhpis-registration-449829250397. Please
note that there will be no opportunity for oral public comments during
the meeting of the Commission. However, written comments are welcomed
throughout the development of the Commission's recommendations to
promote equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders and may be emailed to
[email protected] at any time. Respond concisely and in plain
language. You may use any structure or layout that presents your
information well. You may respond to some or all of our questions, and
you can suggest other factors or relevant questions. You may also
include links to online material or interactive presentations. Clearly
mark any proprietary information and place it in its own section or
file. Your response will become Government property, and we may publish
some of its non-proprietary content.
The Commission is particularly interested in soliciting written
comments on the following questions:
1. Belonging, Inclusion, Anti-Asian Hate, Anti-Discrimination
Subcommittee Questions:
a. Please describe policies, programs, models, or best practices
that have been effective in reducing race-based violence or bias
targeting AA and NHPI communities, including any programs geared toward
children or youth.
b. What policies, programs, models, or best practices, if any, have
reduced incidents of gun violence in AA and NHPI communities?
c. What barriers have AA and NHPI military servicemembers faced in
seeking religious accommodations from their respective branch of the
U.S. military?
2. Data Disaggregation Subcommittee Questions:
a. What datasets do AA and NHPI communities identify as being
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particularly important for the Federal Government to prioritize for
disaggregated data collection, analysis, and reporting?
b. How can existing Federal Government datasets be improved in
terms of questions, survey structures, categories, collection
methodology, data accessibility, and more in order to better serve
community-based organizations and ensure that AA and NHPI population
data is useful for further analysis?
c. What are some ideas on how the Federal Government can better
partner with community-based organizations, think tanks, and academic
institutions for secondary data analysis?
3. Language Access Subcommittee Questions:
a. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires recipients of
Federal financial assistance to provide meaningful access to their
programs to people who are limited English proficient (LEP). How can
the Federal Government ensure that recipients of Federal financial
assistance conduct effective outreach to LEP communities, provide
language access and support AAPI LEP communities, including those that
speak languages of lesser diffusion? Examples, models, or promising
practices are welcomed.
b. Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons
with Limited English Proficiency, requires the Federal Government to
provide LEP individuals with meaningful access to federally-conducted
programs and activities. Each Federal agency was also asked under
Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, to identify
potential barriers that underserved communities and individuals may
face to enrollment in and access to benefits and services in Federal
programs. Given the Federal Government's commitment to language access
and racial equity, how can the Federal Government better conduct
outreach to and address the needs of AA and NHPI LEP communities,
including those that speak languages of lesser diffusion? Examples,
models, or promising practices are welcomed.
c. How can the Federal Government promote the preservation,
teaching, learning of, maintenance and utilization of AA and NHPI
languages?
4. Immigration and Citizenship Status Subcommittee Questions:
a. What information should the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) prioritize
for translation, and what Asian and Pacific Islander languages should
be prioritized?
b. What are some ways for the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to improve
cultural sensitivity, equity, and language access in their interactions
with the AAPI community?
c. How should the Federal Government improve access to humanitarian
protections, such as asylum and victim protections for AAPI community
members?
d. The citizens of the Freely Associated States of Palau, the
Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia may live,
study, and work in the United States and its territories without a
visa. This arrangement is pursuant to compact treaties signed with
these countries and in recognition of the special relationship they
have with the United States. They are lawful residents and do not have
immigrant status nor are they eligible to apply for permanent resident
status. They are currently eligible for some Federal programs but not
others. For example, they are eligible for the Women Infant and
Children's Program (WIC), but not SNAP (Food Stamps). Please provide
examples of the ways in which this lack of access to Federal benefits
and programs has impacted citizens from the Freely Associated States?
e. Please provide input and recommendations on ways to reduce the
burden on individuals and families subject to long-term orders of
supervision following final orders of removal. Many Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders have final orders of removal and continue to live in
the United States on orders of supervision. For example, some
individuals have been required to check-in with U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE), sometimes yearly or more frequently, for
over 20 years. Each ICE field office has the authority to decide the
frequency of check-ins for an individual on an order of supervision,
resulting in often burdensome and traumatic, non-uniform check-in
schedules.
i. How do the current validity periods for Employment Authorization
Documents (EAD) affect individuals with a long-term order of
supervision? How would extending the validity period for EADs issued to
this population impact their livelihood?
ii. What positive equities should ICE consider in determining
removals and in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion?
Authority: Executive Order 14031. The President's Advisory
Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
(Commission) is governed by provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA), Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.),
which sets forth standards for the formation and use of Federal
advisory committees.
Krystal Ka`ai,
Executive Director, White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, President's Advisory Commission on
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
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