[netheril96]

This starts with the [diversity pledge](http://thehill.com/policy/technology/284517-white-house-pres...) pushed by Obama administration, including companies like Airbnb, Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium.

No wonder many Asians sigh relief when Clinton failed her presidency, or she surely would have pushed for more.

[spicymaki]

That is not accurate according to 2016 votes: http://aaldef.org/TheAsianAmericanVote2016-AALDEF.pdf 79% of Asians voted for Clinton.

[echevil]

New Asian immigrants moved to Bay Area for high paying tech jobs have very different views from those that were born in America or have lived here for a long time. Many of the new immigrants have no citizenship yet while the latter are simply much less impacted by these diversity movements overall

[apta]

You mean 70% of Asians who voted, voted for her.

[throwaway1584]

Anecdotally I only knew two Trump voters in the Bay Area. One is Chinese and the other Indian. Polling was not great in the last election, maybe because pollsters can mainly call people with landlines [1] which excludes large pools of people.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/12/t...

[cyphar]

> Polling was not great in the last election

Exit polls are different from opinion polls. The surveying techniques are entirely different, and in general exit polls are considered far more accurate than opinion polls -- because you're polling on a concrete question ("who did you vote for a few minutes ago") rather than a less concrete one ("who are you more likely to vote for").

[dogma1138]

Considering how many people were shamed for voting for trump I’m not entirely sure how accurate those exit polls were as most of them predicted a landslide for HRC before the count started.

[pas]

Could you show such exit polls?

[protomyth]

Out of curiosity, how did they get the cast ballots with the voters race to do their count? Polling, particularly in the last election, was atrocious.

[spicymaki]

How well do you suspect Trump’s anti-immigration and nationalist push play with the Asian community?

Making it difficult for families to immigrate together via family visa and reducing work visas does not play well.

The polling methodology is present in the report I posted.

[alanlovestea]

don't be fooled by the media. Trump supports legal immigration and is allocating more quota to legal immigrants. As a result, tons of legal immigrants support Trump.

[dragonwriter]

> Trump supports legal immigration and is allocating more quota to legal immigrants

Trump has proposed eliminating many of the major existing categories of legal immigration in the core, family-owned action based system. He's proposed replacing the eliminated categories with a small number of renewable non-immigrant (no path to citizenship or work permission) visas for parents of US citizens.

He's proposed no concrete increase in total permanent allocation in the remaining categories, though he's talked about cancelling the diversity visa lottery and reallocating the quota used there to help clear backlogs elsewhere.

[meetapoorvgupta]

He has also expressed a strong desire to revamp the permanent residence visa allocation process to use an individual-focused, merit-based system that prefers applicants with a high income.

If I had to choose one, I'd prefer more employment visas over family visas and definitely diversity visas.

[cyphar]

Exit polls are very different from opinion polls, it doesn't make sense to conflate the two.

[cjhopman]

IIRC, exit polling was just fine.