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((Banner: A Global Media View of the Midterms))
((Reporter/Camera: Elizabeth Lee))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
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You know they are being threatened with arrest and deportation. Legalize the undocumented.
What about people who are waiting in line? That’s just unfair.
((PAMELA ANCHANG, IMPACT RADIO SHOW HOST, IMMIGRANT MAGAZINE EDITOR))
Issues are what would drive us. If you just talk about elections in general, nobody cares.
((GABRIEL LERNER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, LA OPINIÓN SPANISH LANGUAGE PAPER))
Usually a midterm election is not something that we work a lot on.
((PAMELA ANCHANG, IMPACT RADIO SHOW HOST, IMMIGRANT MAGAZINE EDITOR))
We never talked about midterms, congressionals, state and all those kinds of things. The conversation would always peak at presidentials, but for some reason, given the climate that we’re in, you know, everybody is paying attention.
((GABRIEL LERNER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, LA OPINIÓN SPANISH LANGUAGE PAPER))
And due to one word, Trump. In the case of Latinos, Trump positioned himself as a foe since the beginning of his campaign when he defined that Mexican immigrants are criminals, are rapists
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((GABRIEL LERNER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, LA OPINIÓN SPANISH LANGUAGE PAPER))
This created a lot of, a strong reaction against Trump and Trumpism in the community. This has been like an earthquake, a political earthquake for many of the Latinos, and so people are really interested in what is going on.
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((PAMELA ANCHANG, IMPACT RADIO SHOW HOST, IMMIGRANT MAGAZINE EDITOR))
What is really important to Africans, healthcare, being legal. We have a lot of Africans who are undocumented. Now immigrants are aware that elections have consequences and when you don’t vote, for whatever reason, it comes back to either serve you or hurt you.
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((VINCENT CHANG, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, WORLD JOURNAL, CHINESE LANGUAGE PAPER))
From the World Journal’s website, we often see comments from our readers. We can gauge that for President Trump’s policies, among Chinese Americans, even though he’s been widely criticized, but among Chinese Americans, he’s actually quite well received.
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((VINCENT CHANG, WORLD JOURNAL CHINESE LANGUAGE PAPER EXECUTIVE EDITOR))
It’s very possible the results of this (midterm) election will be a vote of confidence for President Trump.
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