00:00Every year, the government is used in a non-immigrant
00:03with a non-immigrant person, a person of $8,500.
00:07Why do I need to get a non-immigrant person to get a non-immigrant person in a non-immigrant
00:11person?
00:12If he is a non-immigrant person, we welcome him.
00:14But he is a non-immigrant person in the United States,
00:17he is a non-immigrant person, he is a non-immigrant person.
00:20My name is Ellen Li Zhao.
00:23Ellen Li Zhao is an immigrant from Guangdong, China.
00:26She is also a member of an independent apostolic church.
00:30Despite being an immigrant herself, she supports policies that many immigrants fear.
00:36In the past two presidential elections,
00:39the number of eligible Asian American voters increased from about 11 million by roughly 4 million.
00:46Among them, the share of Chinese American voters supporting Trump rose by roughly 12%.
00:52Asian American voters are most concerned about issues such as rising prices,
00:58racial discrimination, public safety, and health insurance.
01:02My mother is a農民. My father is in Guangzhou to build a house.
01:09I went to the entire country and went to the United States.
01:13I was from Guangdong to the United States.
01:15I was 16 years old.
01:16I was 16 years old.
01:17I didn't want to come here or not.
01:18It was my father and mother who came here.
01:20Because when we came to the United States in the United States,
01:23when China was not so open, there were a lot of people in China.
01:26When you go to the country, you don't have a good life,
01:28you don't have a good food.
01:29You don't have a good food.
01:32You don't need to have children to eat meat,
01:34you don't have a good food,
01:35dogs,
01:37and tied charts
01:38I have to eat in the village, but I still don't have enough money in the year.
01:47The government needs to take the money every year.
01:51At that time, I thought, why are you so hard to work every year?
01:55Until the year after the year, I still have to pay the government.
01:58Heavenly Father, Lord, I pray in Jesus' name for this beautiful young man right here.
02:02Lord, he will make money not only for him but also for your glory and in kingdom business.
02:07In Jesus' name, amen.
02:11We have to wait for 10 years to come to America.
02:17We have to take care, take care, take care, take care, take care, take care.
02:22We have to go to America to live in a normal life.
02:25Be careful to understand that this is the law of America.
02:29If you have to take care, take care, take care, take care, take care.
02:35That is the law of America.
02:37If you have to pay for money, take care, take care, take care, take care.
02:43And then you have to pay for free.
02:45That is not a law of immigrants.
02:47You don't use the law of immigrants.
02:49Immigrants. Immigration.
02:51I am an immigrant myself.
02:53My experience is that all of us, all of us, any other immigrants to America,
03:00to enjoy freedom, to work, to take their hands on their own.
03:04There can be a place where people can drive, drive.
03:06That is America.
03:07It's a America dream.
03:08American dream.
03:18She has run for mayor of San Francisco multiple times.
03:22She advocates strict law enforcement, supports gun rights and calls for banning illegal immigration.
03:29In 2019, she represented the Republican Party in the election and secured nearly 14 percent
03:36of the vote.
03:37Make San Francisco safe and clean.
03:41Before the pandemic, she worked as a social worker at the Department of Public Health, specializing
03:48in helping young people overcome drug addiction.
03:51She also provided social work services to individuals with mental illness and some offenders.
03:58San Francisco is a terrible city.
04:00We have a lot of crime.
04:01At the time of the day, the business can be open at 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock.
04:05Now, there are a lot of business.
04:06Many people are very early to close the door because they are fighting.
04:11If you like to open the car, you don't like to open the car.
04:13You don't like to open the car.
04:14It's like a gun.
04:15You like to open the car.
04:17You don't like to open the car.
04:18You don't like to kill people.
04:19You don't like to open the car.
04:26You can protect yourself.
04:28You can protect people.
04:29You can protect people.
04:29When the country has a war, you have to fight.
04:31You can protect the country.
04:33San Francisco has long been regarded as one of the country's most liberal and progressive
04:39cities, where democratic politics have shaped the city's direction since the 1960s.
04:47Chinatown here is the oldest Chinatown in the United States.
04:52Asian Americans here have become increasingly politically active in recent years and have
04:58gained greater influence in local politics.
05:01My dad, it took him seven years to petition me and my mother.
05:07We had to sacrifice five years of me not having a father, staying in the Philippines.
05:14I think it's a little unfair that people feel like they have every right to come in here
05:18without going through the process.
05:21People who are impeding upon the law enforcement's work are not being on the legal part of the
05:31I guess society doing something that is illegal.
05:34If you do things like that and you impede upon ICE, then you are putting yourself in jeopardy of being
05:42arrested or being pushed back.
05:50.
06:18Within Chinatown community,
06:20there are also organizations like the Chinese Congregational Church.
06:25Its followers are predominantly made up of immigrants from Guangdong, China.
06:38The Church has long advocated for marriage equality
06:42and maintains an open, welcoming stance towards immigrants.
06:46Pastor Merida Wilson-Wong leads the Church as an openly lesbian pastor.
06:53We would want to be a place of sanctuary.
06:55We feel that immigrants are being mistreated.
06:59This Church was founded by immigrants,
07:02and many of us currently are either the children of immigrants
07:08or immigrated here ourselves.
07:12So they are not other, they are us.
07:17That's the Church's stance.
07:18Many people are here legally because they followed the system
07:22and then the system changed,
07:24and then attitudes about the system changed.
07:28We have real issues where people need to leave their homes
07:32and come to this country.
07:34There is the conservativeness of,
07:37or maybe ultra-conservativeness of my President Trump.
07:43It's way too much for me.
07:46It is too devastating for the democracy.
07:50What we do is to try to understand where those people are coming from
07:55so that we can understand why it is that they feel a need
07:59to go to more right-wing politics.
08:02Now, we're in San Francisco and California,
08:04and basically we are much more liberal and open
08:08for having justice for everybody.
08:13Pray for the pain and violence in Minnesota and across our nation.
08:19As our United States is reshaped by these times,
08:24pray that God would lead us toward a future.
08:27Build on mercy and stand of spirit.
08:30Immigration has shaped San Francisco
08:33and reshaped the United States political map.
08:36As the midterm elections approach,
08:39these voters will play a decisive role in the nation's future.
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