A University of Massachusetts survey of Asian Americans found that 80 percent paid attention to immigration issues. 58 percent said they were sympathetic to Latinos’ position on immigration and 52 percent supported a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Detroit Free Press, “I don’t expect much of a [...]
Tag Archives: South Asians
More Engaged Than Ever, Asian Voters Are Increasingly Important in Virginia
October 23, 2008 – 7:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBF9OVB_jV8 With a tight race for Virginia’s 13 electoral votes, the southern state’s substantial Asian immigrant population is in a position to influence the outcome, and Asian volunteers are working to get out the vote in their communities. Check out this Web documentary by filmmaker Adele Pham, featuring Asian-Americans in Falls Church, a Washington, D.C. [...]
New UK Immigration Restrictions to Affect South Asians
September 15, 2008 – 3:40 pm
With all the controversy at home, sometimes we forget that other countries have controversies over immigration as well—especially the European Union. For example, the UK enacted regulations last week that will restrict the number of immigrants that can come to the country from outside Europe. The UK’s Migration Advisory Committee, a division of the UK [...]
La. Gov Bobby Jindal to Speak at GOP Convention Tonight
September 3, 2008 – 2:56 pm
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, the first Indian-American governor of a U.S. state, will speak at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. tonight. The 37-year-old first-generation American is a rising star in the Republican party, and at one point there was even talk of a V.P. spot. But with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, the [...]
Dems Recognize South Asian Political Power
August 18, 2008 – 2:08 pm
Lehman Brothers’ Managing Director Romita Shetty Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has appointed four co-chairs to the DNC’s new South Asian American Leadership Council, which will organize South Asian voters—and more importantly, campaign donors—during the 2008 election. The co-chairs are high-up in the financial and technical fields: they are New York investor bankers Parag [...]
Sugar Land Tells Story of South Asian Rise
August 18, 2008 – 1:28 pm
Residents of Sugar Land, Texas, know they have something special. Considered the fittest and the safest city in Texas, it’s also a symbol of the increasing diversity within the Lone Star State. Its population is composed of almost equal quarters of Hispanics, blacks, whites and Asians. Sugar Land’s South Asians, in particular, are the focus [...]
Direction Sugar Land
June 20, 2008 – 1:04 pm
The Congressional seat in the 22nd District of Texas has been much in the news in recent years. Former Republican Majority House Leader Tom DeLay held it for 11 years, until his indictment in 2006 (for campaign finance violations) triggered a bizarre chain of events, that included a general election with a Republican write-in candidate [...]
