Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Texas House candidate Sandra VuLe (campaign photo).
The Dallas Morning News reports on a local race where the changing faces of America are facing off against each other. In Texas’ 112th state house district, Taiwanese-American Republican Angie Chen Button is running against Democrat Sandra Phuong VuLe, who was born in Vietnam. Both naturalized citizen advocate for [...]

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The AP reports that tensions between immigrants and union members led to the largest immigration raid in U.S. history, in Mississippi earlier this week. ICE began investigating Howard Industries three years ago after a union members tipped them off.
The Miami Herald notes that Cuban issues are no longer as important to Miami voters as [...]

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A Chinese immigrant died of cancer in a detention facility after authorities ignored his excruciating pain for months.
More immigration raids: ICE arrests 42 suspected illegal immigrants working at Dulles Airport in suburban Washington, D.C. and 57 at a parachute plant in Asheville, N.C.
Deportations are up 40 percent in the Pacific Northwest, due to the [...]

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Above, Barack Obama with his half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.
When News21 reporters talked to immigrants around the country about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, we found that many identified with him, not only because Obama is a minority, but because his multi-ethnic background and peripatetic childhood gave him a taste of the immigrant experience.
Now, [...]

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With the continuing shift of Asian Americans to the Democratic Party, and as more Asian Republicans and independents become disillusioned with the status quo, does Barack Obama has the potential to capture a large majority of these voters? That’s what I found through extensive interviews with Asian voters in Southern California and discussions with political [...]

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Minority voting has been a major theme in this election cycle. African Americans are voting as a bloc for Senator Obama. Latino Americans were voting mostly for Senator Clinton. Little has been reported, however, about the so-called “quiet minority:” Asian Americans, who also voted in large percentages for Clinton in the primaries. On Super Tuesday [...]

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Asian Americans make up the smallest racial group in the country, comprising about 5 percent (14.4 million) of the population. Yet they are the fastest growing sector, rising by 3 percent from 2004 to 2005, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. With continuing immigration from Asia–especially China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Korea–and [...]

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