Clinton has more substantive plans for APIAs
I noticed the same thing when she unveiled her AAPIs for Hillary campaign last May. She knows the community’s needs and has already worked on them whereas Obama is all talk. She built strong ties with the community over the years so she knows what she’s talking about and what she’s doing:
In the Senate, Hillary has championed numerous initiatives to improve the lives of AAPIs, their families and communities. Last year Hillary introduced legislation that would reunite families who have been separated by the immigration system. In addition, she sponsored the Legal Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act to restore access to Medicaid and SCHIP benefits for legal immigrant pregnant women and children and introduced the Access to Employment and English Language Acquisition Act to provide more job training funds for individuals with limited English language skills. As president, Hillary Clinton will promote an agenda that provides the opportunity, support and tools that AAPIs need to realize the American dream and address the challenges facing the community, including discrimination, language barriers, and poor access to affordable health care.
I was reading the APA Heritage Month statements that both Clinton and Obama put out last week and the two are really quite different. What was interesting to me was that Obama’s statement - the candidate with the Asian lineage - was clearly more of a simple press release that really didn’t have much to do with anything specific about the APA community - you could really just plug and play pretty much any ethnic group into the statement and it wouldn’t matter, while Clinton’s statement was directed specifically towards the APA community. Now juxtapose that with Clinton’s, who talks about the model minority myth, how the APA community isn’t a collective, specific legislation and why it’s important to the APA community, and immigration reform and how it relates to Asian American issues like family visas - and more.
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