赵美心领衔促撤回Head Start纯英语提案 并质询ICE保释金拒发 刘云平推动全国影视税收抵免
10月上中旬，华裔联邦众议员接连采取多项行动。10月6日，众议员赵美心（加州第28区）与众议员孟昭文（纽约第6区）联合国会西语裔、黑人党团领袖，致信卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪，要求撤回「启智计划」（Head Start）拟议规则中强制纯英语教学、取消长期语言协助保障的条款。
议员们在信中指出，启智计划在册儿童中近40%是双语学习者、全国约29万人；要求纯英语教学「没有证据支持，反而可能损害学好英语这一目标」，且与国会通过《启智法》作出的指示相冲突。
10月9日，赵美心领衔29名议员致信国土安全部部长马林、司法部长布兰奇与移民审查执行办公室代理主任欧文，质询移民拘留保释被拒增多与保释金上涨。信中引用的数据称，保释申请从2024年的34,845件增至2025年的80,130件；法官拒绝比例由约36%升至43%，2026年前三个月达55%；全国保释金中位数由6,000美元升至7,500美元，加州阿德兰托ICE处理中心拒批比例达57%。赵美心表示：「每个人都应在案件审理期间有公平争取自由的机会。移民法官必须依据事实与法律作出裁决，而不是政治压力。」
同在10月6日，众议员刘云平（加州第36区）与弗里德曼、洛杉矶代表团成员及影视工会，在Glendale推动两党法案《影视与娱乐振兴法案》：对符合条件的美国人工开支给予20%税收抵免，另设多项加成、最高30%，后期与视觉特效纳入、抵免可转让，适用于2026年12月31日后开拍的制作。刘云平说，南加州是现代影视产业的发源地，「不能让美国影视业输给外国竞争者」；赵美心也是该法案共同领衔人之一。
10月15日，赵美心在Pasadena就FBI于10月4日逮捕一名被指控受中国政府指使、在Seattle监视台湾总统赖清德之子及其家人的个人发表声明；被捕者被控未登记充当外国代理人，指控尚待法庭审理。赵美心表示：「有关中国政府在美国境内针对赖清德总统之子及其家人开展间谍行动的指控，令我深感不安。」
赵美心2009年当选众议员，是国会首位华裔女性议员，现为国会亚太裔美国人党团（CAPAC）名誉主席；孟昭文现任该党团主席。（GSM 据赵美心、刘云平众议员办公室发布报道）
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Chu Leads Call to Withdraw English-Only Head Start Proposal, Questions ICE Bond Denials; Lieu Pushes National Film Tax Credit
Chinese-American members of Congress took a series of actions in Washington and Southern California in early to mid-October. On October 6, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) and Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06) joined leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus — the three caucuses known as the Tri-Caucus — in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urging him to withdraw a proposed Head Start rule that would mandate English-only instruction and eliminate longstanding language-access protections.
Head Start provides early childhood education and comprehensive support to low-income children. In their letter, the members noted that nearly 40 percent of Head Start children are dual-language learners — almost 290,000 nationwide — and 30 percent come from homes where English is not the primary language. Requiring English-only instruction, they wrote, "is not supported by the evidence and risks undermining that very goal" of strong English skills, and conflicts with Congress's directives in the Head Start Act. They urged HHS to withdraw the English-only requirement and retain language-access protections.
On October 9, Chu led 29 members of Congress in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Mullin, Attorney General Blanche and Executive Office for Immigration Review Acting Director Owen demanding answers about rising immigration bond denials and increasingly unaffordable bond amounts. Data cited in the letter show bond requests more than doubled from 34,845 in 2024 to 80,130 in 2025; the share denied by immigration judges rose from about 36 percent in 2024 to 43 percent in 2025 and 55 percent in the first three months of 2026; and the national median bond rose from $6,000 to $7,500. At the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, 57 percent of bond requests have been denied since November 2025. "Everyone deserves a fair shot at freedom while they fight their case," Chu said. "Immigration judges must be free to make decisions based on the facts and the law, not political pressure."
Also on October 6, Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-36) joined Rep. Laura Friedman, other members of the Los Angeles congressional delegation and major entertainment unions at the Alex Theatre in Glendale to push the bipartisan Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act. The bill would create a national film tax credit of 20 percent on qualified U.S. labor expenses, with additional 5 percent bonuses — up to 30 percent in total — for categories including rural opportunity zones, federal disaster areas and independent productions; post-production and visual effects work would qualify, the credit would be transferable, and it would apply to productions beginning after December 31, 2026. "Southern California is the birthplace of the modern film and television industry," Lieu said. "We can't let the United States' film industry lose ground to foreign competitors." Backers note that roughly 65 countries offer filming incentives while the U.S. has long had no national one. Chu is also a co-lead of the bill.
On October 15, Chu issued a statement in Pasadena responding to an October 4 FBI arrest. According to the FBI, an individual accused of spying on the son and family of Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te in Seattle, at the direction of the Chinese government, was arrested on October 4 and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent; the allegations remain before the courts. "I am deeply troubled by allegations that the Chinese government conducted a spying operation here in the United States targeting the son and family of President Lai Ching-te," Chu said in the statement.
Chu, first elected in 2009, was the first Chinese-American woman elected to Congress and is Chair Emerita of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC); Meng is CAPAC's current Chair. (GSM, based on releases from the offices of Reps. Chu and Lieu)
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图片来源：图：联邦众议员赵美心官方肖像（第118届国会）。图片来源：美国众议院／Wikimedia Commons（公共领域）。Photo: Official portrait of Rep. Judy Chu (118th Congress). Source: U.S. House of Representatives / Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
