Immigrants in favor of Trump? Some New York show their support

A.D. Amar Anand Ahuja and Davendra Makkar, founder of the Indian-American group for Trump 2016 in atrium of Trump Tower in New York

Throughout the campaign route, Donald Trump likes to pick people who support the race for the Republican presidential nomination even though he had insulted his ethnic group. They really love him.

And with Trump leading in the polls for the presidential primary in New York on April 19, small groups of immigrants presented in support. No matter what he has said that Mexicans are rapists and drug traffickers, suggested a temporary ban on the entry of Muslims in the United States and request the deportation of more than 11 million immigrants who are not allowed to stay in the country.

These immigrants are supporting the reasons for that are intensely personal and, not surprisingly, often are in accordance with its policy in the country.

A recent informal survey conducted by a Russian-language radio station in New York City showed that more than 80% of 5000 listeners who called preferred Trump, the leading Republican candidate, Hillary Clinton, the likely indicated by the Democratic Party.

A group of Republican Latinos in Rockland County intends to support it, and some Indian-American professionals older and some Hindu youth have done.

Consider the case of Anand Ahuja, a lawyer in their 60s in Long Island, which was a founder of the Indian-American by Trump in 2016, a political action committee that strangely does not capture money.

Ahuja visited the US when he was 20 and a few years as a tourist and said friends were getting married for the residence permit in the country. They stayed and prospered, but Ahuja returned to India and waited nine years to immigrate legally.

Ahuja Trump praised for wanting to prevent the illegal entry of immigrants in the country. "They should not reward people who circumvent the law," he said. ". Or you follow the law or is punished is why I like Donald Trump when he says." Let's build a wall ' "

He added: "I believe that anyone who entered this country illegally should be deported."

Or, as Tony Mele, 55, president of the Latin National Republican Coalition of Rockland County, and a private security consultant: "When you're in New York, standing in the long queue to buy tickets to a show, or at the supermarket, which ? happens when a person sticks to queue with a cart people say, 'Oh, no, it will not stick!' I do not care if it's Mexico, Ecuador, or that island you came. "

Mele, who was born in the Bronx, added: "You have a guy like Trump saying, 'Hey, go back to the queue like everyone else.'"

Rene, 38, a businessman in Spring Valley, New York, and member of the Rockland coalition, came from Ecuador to the US illegally as a teenager 22 years ago. Your employer offered him a work permit. Later he asked the permanent residence and became a citizen in 2006. He declined to give his last name for fear reactions against their children manners or against their companies.

Rene supports Trump because he believes that the Democrats did not help immigrants like him. He said he is full of corruption and the resulting lack of resources in the school district of East Ramapo.

Your school board, dominated by ultra-Orthodox Jews, is facing lawsuits and an FBI investigation on their spending in public schools and yeshivas.

"Our community is tired of dealing with the same thing over and over," said Rene. "The only way to make our voice worth is starting to look our way in."

No one else in Latin coalition would comment publicly. As Rene, they fear retaliation, that other immigrants who support Trump have faced.
"You become mocked and criticism," Ahuja said. "At first people cursed the ugly in my Facebook They wrote:." It's a shame you be Indian and supporting Donald Trump. ' "


Tony Mele, director of Latin Republican National Coalition of Rockland County, a group that aims to support Donald Trump, in his office in Chestnut Ridge (NY)

Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for Advanced Studies of India at the University of Pennsylvania, said the group Ahuja was a dissident in an Indian diaspora that voted overwhelmingly Democratic. In the 2008 presidential race, 84% of Indian-American voters chose Barack Obama, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.

"No reflection on the representation by a long margin," said Kapur, who is the author of a book forthcoming on the success of Indian immigrants in the US. "Be Sikhs by Hindus or Trump for Trump, in each of them you say, 'It's the same as you can?' It's really a small fraction. They represent themselves, not all Sikhs. "

In comparison, in Brooklyn and Staten Island, Russian immigrants --especially the most velhos-- voted Republican because they see the Democratic Party aligned with the former Soviet Union, said Gregory Davidzon, owner of a radio station in Brooklyn and leader political. His station conducted research for a whole day last week; he said he does not support a candidate, only explains the phenomenon.

"They are in favor of the Republican Party against their own history, against the Soviet Union, that is my perception," Davidzon said. "It's nothing personal with Trump."

Isaak Shikhman, 70, a Republican from Staten Island who came as Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union in 1989 and became a citizen in 1995, said he supports Trump for its ability to strongly deal with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and their opinions immigration. "We came to this country
legally, "he said." It is very important that Mexicans do the same. "

He laughed when asked about Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a socialist who dispute with Clinton the Democratic nomination.

"My life for 43 years was in a communist country," Shikhman said. "I do not want it again."

Adity Sharma, 30, a law student and one of 20 members of Hindus by Trump, a Facebook group that sometimes meets in cafes in Brooklyn, said his Indian-American family supports Hillary. "Each one with his," she said, adding about Trump: "He is a strong candidate, is different from others Because it is not very politically correct, it makes people listen.".

She and the other members of the group believe that US policy is too friendly with regard to Pakistan, and Trump can change it for the benefit of India. They also approved the proposal for Trump to ban Muslim refugees.

Raju Bathija, 56, another affiliated to the group, said he does not trust Hillary because of its foreign policy to India. But more than 15 years ago, she said it was a dinner to raise funds for Clinton's Senate campaign, as the Indian-American Democratic Party member. It was in an apartment on Fifth Avenue, which she Trump donated for the occasion.

Now she and Trump are against Hillary. How to explain this?

"You will go where butter on your bread," Bathija said.