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This section declares congressional findings on anti-Sikh hate and discrimination, including Sikhs' identification by turbans, beards, karas, or kirpans; historical violence such as the 1907 Bellingham Riots, post-9/11 surge, and August 5, 2012, Oak Creek Gurdwara mass shooting (killing six worshippers, with a seventh dying in 2020); and 2024 FBI data identifying Sikhs as the third-most targeted religious group despite comprising less than 1% of the U.S. population. The section further finds chronic underreporting of anti-Sikh hate crimes; potential foreign-supported transnational repression; and forms of discrimination including physical violence and hate crimes, harassment and intimidation, stereotyping and vilification, civil rights violations (e.g., restrictions on Sikh articles of faith), and transnational repression.