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Asian-Americans Warned Over Chinese Immigration Attack

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Gabriel Chin warns Asian-Americans and Chinese-Americans to oppose attacks on community existence amid an arrest in the Northern Mariana Islands.

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Wei was arrested on August 21 by local authorities following an assault on a family.

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“Asian-Americans, Chinese-Americans, should be very concerned about this and very energised to stop what is essentially an attack on the existence of the community,” said Gabriel Chin, professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law.

“We should not accept the idea that Chinese immigration is a bad thing because it’s Chinese because that’s inevitably going to affect the position of US citizens of Chinese ancestry.”

Wei was arrested on August 21 by the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety on criminal charges following an alleged assault on a family of five at their home, according to ICE.

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