CA Asians Divided but Favor AZ Law in Poll
A poll taken this month In CA showed that majorities of white, African-American and Asian-American voters all approve of the Arizona anti-immigrant law, SB1070. Latinos oppose it. Fifty-eight percent of white voters, 53 percent of African-Americans, and 50 percent of Asian-Americans back the law. 43 percent of Asian Americans oppose the law, while 71 percent of Latino voters oppose it and 24 percent support it.
The poll was multi-lingual with four Asian languages/dialects - Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Korean - alongside English and Spanish.
Vietnamese are the most likely to support the law and Koreans the least likely.
Full poll is found below.
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Date of first Azine posting:
07/30/2010 - Login to post comments
That is a very revealing poll survey, but not that surprising.
The 50% of Californian Asian Americans who support that Arizona law apparently don't realize (or don't care) that Asian Americans will also be affected by that Arizona law, not just Latinos.
http://www.reappropriate.com/2010/05/18/asian-americans-against-sb-1070/
More broadly, that poll confirms a Pew Research poll conducted in May 2010 that suggests a solid majority of Americans in general support SB 1070.
Xenophobic nationalism disguised behind the rule of law.
It's as American as apple pie.