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Disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and last-minute changes by the Trump administration, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Wednesday that the release of the first results of the 2020 census will likely be delayed by four months.

Southeast Asian Americans saw a rise in detentions and deportations under Trump. The New Way Forward Act, introduced by Democratic lawmakers, would let some reopen their cases.

The 5.9% unemployment rate among the roughly 10 million-strong Asian workforce in December was below the national rate. But in the final three months of 2020, almost half of jobless Asians had been out of work for at least 27 weeks — a bigger share than White, Black or Hispanic Americans.

Forty-four percent of unemployed Asian American women have been jobless long-term, a trend experts say is due to the sectors they work in, family and cultural dynamics.

Things were looking up for the rapidly growing Asian American electorate after the 2020 election. Voter turnout in the community had been bigger than ever before, and Joe Biden, the candidate most had supported, had won the presidency. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice president, was of South Asian heritage.

A new executive action confronts the racism Trump stoked toward Asian Americans during the pandemic.