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The San Francisco Gate is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s staff barred ethnic Chinese reporters from her campaign fundraiser last Friday.

Clinton staffers told them foreign media was limited to one pool staffer, although the Chinese journalists worked for American press.

Read on.

The journalists said denied access to the event after the Clinton campaign failed to include them on the press advisory for the event and the reporters tried to check in five minutes late.

This is the rest of the story at the Gate tells it:

Li, a prominent journalist who has worked for more than two decades in the Bay Area, said she knew such events routinely begin late and that reporters often are allowed in after they start.

But a staffer told her she was too late to get in. When Li argued, the staffer explained that because she was considered “foreign media” — which were limited to a single pool reporter — she could not go in.

Any local media who checked in by the cutoff were admitted.

When Li showed her business card, the staffer asked for two forms of identification, which seemed to Li to be insulting. She said she had never had to show identification at similar events.

“She kept saying this is only open for local media, not foreign press,” Li said. “I told her, I’m not foreign press. I’m local media. I was really angry. It’s not about myself. It’s about how the mainstream looks at Chinese (people) as a whole. Why do they call us foreigners, even they we have a local address on our business card?”