"These practices in Xinjiang are one of the world's largest human tragedies. It remains unimaginable, frankly, that this is happening in 2020," Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican sponsor of the bipartisan bill, told reporters.
Representative Jim McGovern, a Democrat who leads the Congressional-Executive Committee on China, which looks at human rights, said that witnesses, surveillance photos and leaked documents all showed the existence of forced labor.