Asian groups come out in support of justice department affirmative action plan

quote:

---

Lee Cheng, the co-founder and director of the Asian American Legal Foundation, spoke to The Daily Caller News Foundation about his hope that the DOJ will now be a partner in the fight against race-based policies in college admissions.

“Now there is a voice in DC that we can appeal to. There’s an administration and there are people at the federal government level who want to enforce civil rights as they were meant to be enforced, which is to protect individual rights of all Americans regardless of race. So we view that as certainly a very positive development,” Cheng told TheDCNF. “We absolutely intend to keep an eye on the development of schools across the country and where we find discrimination under the euphemism of affirmative action we would definitely let the DOJ know that they should investigate.”

---

quote:

---

“Asian Americans who have never discriminated against anybody in America find themselves on the short end of the stick where in the name of diversity and in the name of affirmative action we end up having to score higher, achieve more in order to get the same access to opportunities as other Americans just because of our race. And that’s wrong,” he said to TheDCNF.

Cheng hopes the DOJ memo signals a potential push to transparency in the college admissions process. By schools revealing their college admissions records, Cheng believes that poorer college applicants might stand a greater chance in the enrollment process.

“I have hope that the DOJ will force schools to let the public see what the schools have been doing. The schools have been denying for years that they discriminate.They won’t let anyone see their admissions records,” he said to TheDCNF.

---

quote:

---

Asian Americans have the lowest acceptance rate for each SAT test-score bracket. To gain admission to college, Asian-American students had to score 140 points higher than white students, 270 points higher than Hispanic students, and 450 points higher than black students.

---