Many Asian Pacific Americans often do not feel that elections affect them, especially when they find that the issues that public officials are talking about are not the issues they care about. It doesn t have to be this way. Each Asian Pacific American voter has an important role in making elected officials address Asian Pacific American issues. Your vote counts. Take a look at the list of issues that many Asian Pacific Americans care about and see what s at stake for yourself, your family, and your community.
Many Asian immigrants continue to face great difficulties.
One of these is their increasing difficulty to petition their family members. The most recent examples of this are the shootings of a South Asian man, Sandip Patel, in Pittsburgh on April 2000, and of a Filipino lettercarrier, Joseph Ileto in California on August 1999. Currently, some public officials are pushing for the passing of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Which is aimed at toughening and expanding existing hate crimes law. Asian Pacific Americans, particularly women, have benefited and continue to benefit from affirmative action.