The voters line up to vote to vote at the alleging stadium on November 5, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada behind a reading panel “vote, Bumoto, vote” – Directions in English, Tagalog and Spanish.
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Pauline Lee is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States in adolescence, with nothing.
“When they came here, they were poor,” she recalls.
They first worked on entry -level jobs, before they stood up and built successful careers in California.
Lee is proud of his family immigration stories – and because they have legally come to the United States.
“Illegal immigration is, for me, one of the biggest problems, because you also give these illegal immigrants many of our resources that should be kept for our own Americans,” she said. “It’s a real problem.”
Lee, a retired lawyer, is active in republican policy in Nevada. About six Americans of Asian out of 10 in the state voted for President Trump against the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November. It is a huge swing of four years earlier, while a little more than six in 10 Asian voters supported Joe Biden.
During his first 100 days in power, President Trump took action to repress immigration and end of diversity programs in higher education and the federal government. These actions occurred in the elections in which Trump extended his support to non -white voters – including certain groups directly affected by these policies.
During lunch, Lee says that many of his Asian American friends also appreciate Trump rejection of diversity initiatives commonly called Dei.
“I’m going to say right now, I’m full of resentment as a parent that my children must have more than other children to enter certain colleges,” said Lee.
When his now adult children were applying at university, Lee says that the advisers have moved them away from Ivy League, warning that they would face too many other performing Asian students.
The municipal councilor of Las Vegas, Francis Allen-Palenske, heard similar frustrations.
“I think that most Asians feel as if, when colleges go through this process of verification, that the ethnicity of students should not be released, so that there is absolute parity in this discussion – true meritocracy, if there is such a thing.” She said.
Allen-Palenske, whose mother came to the United States of South Korea, was previously a republican legislative state. She says that change to Republicans among Americans of Asian origin in Nevada also concerns economic issues.
“Gas prices, inflation, the ability to buy a house, especially here in southern Nevada, have changed in the past 15 years,” said Allen-Palenske. “Las Vegas was probably one of the best places in the country to come and buy a house for $ 200,000 and the property was very feasible 15 years ago. We cannot say it for the moment.”
James Zarsadiaz, historian at the University of San Francisco, observed largely part of economic concerns leading to a quarter of work.
“There is a strong working class and a lower community in the middle class of Americans of Asian origin in Nevada, many of whom work in hospitality, in the game industry,” he said. “And so I think they feel the plus to grocery store, with the fuel pump.”
Regarding Trump’s economic policies, Rachel Puaina, a local teacher whose husband and four adult children are union workers, says she sees Trump defending the United States.
“Is that why you voted? Yes, that’s why we voted,” she said. “Prices. I want to do this for over 20 years.”
She acknowledges that Trump’s prices have led to volatility on the stock market, but she says that the Americans should be ready to “suffer” for a little while and should give Trump policies a chance to work.
“I looked at the stock market. Yes, it falls,” said Puaina. “And I said to myself, well, that’s what we get to allow them to do this for how many years?”“”
Puaina, whose parents immigrated to the United States of the Philippines, also supports Trump’s immigration policies, including his pressure to rethink citizenship of the right of birth.
“Regarding citizenship, I think we have to be more strict restrictions,” she said.
Schayden Gorai, a representative on the ground in Las Vegas for the conservative action of the Turning Point group, identifies himself as an American Asian and says that he believes that many in the local Asian community agree with Trump.
“Many of them are immigrants from other countries, and they did it in the right way. They followed the process themselves. And I think they just want to be treated fairly,” he suggested. “There is a good way and a bad way to do things. They did it in the right way, and they think that everyone should also do it in the right way and be treated equally.”
Historian James Zarsadiaz says that for some Americans of Asian origin having recent links with immigration, these experiences even attracted them to Trump’s rhetoric.
“They do not consider immigration as a racial problem. They see it as a question of equity or a question of public order,” he said.
But for some Americans of Asian origin here, uncertainty around Trump’s expulsion policy causes fear.
During an Asian cultural festival in Las Vegas recently, a woman named May – a naturalized citizen who was born in the Philippines – says that Trump’s efforts to suppress citizenship from the right of birth.
“I’m like, I’m going to be the next one … Do you know what I mean?” She asked.
May asked us not to use her last name because she has a family member looking for citizenship and she hesitates to speak publicly.
“I’m just worried … Just because he crosses the right channels, he could be expelled,” said May. “It’s like a little discomfort.”
Nevada represents a more pronounced example of a greater change. In November, Asian American voters in the country have evolved around Trump about six points compared to 2020.
That said, it is not clear if Trump can maintain this support. In a survey published this week by the public Religion Research Institute, only four Americans of Asian origin out of 10 have said that they have approved Trump’s professional performance so far.
