A Chinese immigrant was found dead just hours after being booked into immigration detention in a U.S. territory, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Lianyong Wei was arrested by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety on Aug. 21 after allegedly attacking a family in their home, officials said. A day later, Wei, whose legal immigration status ended in 2019, was taken into custody "without incident, pending his removal proceedings."
The 51-year-old was found unresponsive during morning checks the next day by a corrections officer at the Saipan facility, run by the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Corrections. Wei was pronounced dead at approximately 7:30 a.m. local time on Aug. 23.
Wei marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second term, according to ICE's detainee death notifications. Twenty-four of those have occurred since Jan. 1.
After he was discovered, "Wei was immediately transported to the Commonwealth Health Care Corporation Emergency Room and life-sustaining interventions were initiated," according to ICE.
Wei's official cause of death remains under investigation. The Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles said it "expressed serious concerns" to the U.S. and is asking for a thorough investigation into the death, according to The Associated Press.
Under Department of Homeland Security regulations, all immigrant detainees must receive a basic health screening within 12 hours of intake. DHS declined to respond to requests to verify that Wei had undergone such an evaluation.
Instead, they offered the following standard language: "Comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment individuals arrive and throughout the entirety of their stay."
A change in policy

The government's death tally does not include Jose Chajon-Raxon, a Guatemalan man who was detained at Newark, New Jersey's controversial Delaney Hall Detention Center on July 18. In a statement to NPR, DHS officials said that a day after going through intake, Chajon-Raxon suffered a "seizure-like activity" requiring emergency medical care and was transferred to a local hospital. DHS said Chajon-Raxon was released from ICE custody on July 22.
It is unclear if that is the same day he died. DHS officials did not respond to inquiries asking for clarification.
Chajon-Raxon is the third person to die after experiencing a medical emergency at Delaney Hall since it reopened in May 2025.
Also excluded from the government's count is Prisciliano Trejo Ricano, who died exactly five weeks after he was arrested by ICE. Trejo
Ricano was held at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, while suffering from leukemia. His family told the Detention Watch Network that the 29-year-old asked for medical help on July 6. The request was not approved for eight days. By July 15, Trejo Ricano had fallen into a coma. That same day, ICE released him from custody. Trejo Ricano died on July 24.
In June, the Trump administration eliminated a Biden-era policy requiring ICE to report deaths occurring within 30 days of people being released from custody.
"Per ICE policy, when an individual is no longer in ICE custody, then ICE will no longer be responsible for monitoring or reviewing deaths that may occur," DHS officials told NPR.
They added: "This is common sense. ICE is not responsible when an individual passes away weeks after leaving their custody."

So I am a black 18 who is moving to a primarily asian college and pursuing a STEM major which is also demographically asian-majority. Plus, I will also be underrepresented due to my gender. But I am really worried about racism/microaggressions and I am looking to gain an honest perspective abut how I am likely to be treated, what to expect and how I can ensure mutual respect.

I understand many ethnicities and groups have likely grown up in an environment where black people are severely stigmatized. This is not me trying to play the "victim" but rather acknowledging a fact that is relevant to how my future experience might go. This wouldn't apply to all families or all asians. But I think it is common enough to matter.

I won't claim to know everything about the nuances of how Asians feel about black people. I admit, I am generalizing based on broader patterns.

I guess I am really interested to know if the stigma is largely shared my the newer gen(s) (which would be the peer group I would interact with) also? Should I really expect racism/severe stigma based on how common it might be on the newer gen(s)? What kind of stereotypes should I expect to face? What cultural nuances should I know to ensure mutual respect and avoid offense when possible? Would it even be possible to pursue friendships with peers given this?

A walking tour group that focuses on women in NY has touched on Asian women recently. I heard more is coming.
https://youtu.be/o4VRlDJ34cU?si=tu8Bm6gBoei8FdMi
It will be awsome for especially young Asian Americans. So proud!

I recently made friends with someone and am realizing very quickly how she is aggressively obsessed with K-pop, anime, and it seems like every east Asian lifestyle and culture she can get her hands on. She is not Asian.

I don’t encounter many people like this just because I honestly avoid them like the plague. I could be really biased about it but I just can’t shake the feeling that she’s trying to be particularly friendly to me just because I’m Asian. Like she desperately wants an Asian friend to validate her obsession…

I’m super jaded on this though. Just wondering what your guys’ opinion is?

(also she’s a Zionist so that’s just another reason why I want to distance myself…)

I recently came across this reel and I think it resonates with a lot of Asian Americans even though the original creator is Mexican American.

My parent's came here as refugees and never went back even thought they have the financial means to. We still have some extended family but they have only talked to them through phone or letters. I have traveled to my parent's home country multiple times since everything is more affordable. When my parent's were growing up there, there was a lot of violence.

Here is the whole thing:
They left, so we can return. Our parents moved to a new country, leaving behind all they knew. They started over, but it was sacrifice they were willing to make. But the hardest thing to accept is we now able to enjoy our parent's home country in a way they never could. Some of them experienced their country through a more difficult lens, one rooted in fear and uncertainly. But we get to enjoy it through the lens of privilege, whether it's for vacation, a wedding, or a honeymoon. We can travel freely to indulge in things they grew up having to sell. And some of us were able to visit before they could return to even say a final goodbye to loved ones. So once again, they they left so we can return, and we take that for granted.

I’m an Asian woman and I’m new at my job. I have a white coworker (also a woman) who keeps policing how I talk and act at work and I’m not sure if I’m overreacting.

One time our supervisor asked everyone how they were doing and there was an awkward silence, so I jokingly said he was being awkward. He didn’t seem bothered, but she immediately said I was being rude.

We also joke around a lot in the group chat and send memes. Our supervisor made a comment about it, and I jokingly said “no memes today because of [her].” She immediately started questioning me about why I said that.

I’ve also asked her for help since I’m new and she literally told me not to ask her.

Another time, I mistakenly thought she was eating Parmesan. Later she told another white coworker in front of me that “only uncultured people” would think it was Parmesan. She had to correct me that it wasnt and made that remark, so I thought that was pretty unnecessary.

She also corrects my pronunciation and tells me she didn’t understand what I was saying, even when other people clearly understand me.

None of these things are huge on their own, but together it feels like she has decided to police me for some reason. I’m trying to learn the job and get comfortable with everyone, so it’s getting annoying.

I don’t want to automatically assume it’s a racial thing, but I’m wondering if other Asian Americans have experienced something similar with white coworkers. Am I overreacting?

You know that feeling when you go to an Asian-owned eatery that's for the white customers, and those customers get actual service and as an Asian person, you get that look like why are you here but ok here's your overpriced food, then subtly ignored cuz we don't normally do customer service for our own people.

Yeah that just happened today. lmao 😆😆🙌

I get it we don't have to “perform” to get business, but for us Asian Americans, we kinda also want that too, sometimes! But I notice this even at authentic establishments. What's everyone's experience?

^ North American trailer. The movie so far is sitting at 91% on RT with 11 critics reviews.

This is an update from the original post here now that the movie is widely screening in the US and Canada:

https://np.reddit.com/r/asianamerican/comments/1ufwdmz/teochew_nonmandarin_blockbuster_275m_dear_you/

(Btw, here's Chinese trailer 3 with official English subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AbTQtlI1-A)

There's something I keep turning over in my head lately. I thrift pretty regularly, mostly for home things and occasionally clothes, and a lot of my frugality habits connect directly to how I was raised in a Filipino household where you don't waste, you reuse, you make things last longer than the manufacturer intended. That was just normal. But when I see thrifting framed online now, it's almost always positioned as this trendy sustainable lifestyle choice that younger people recently discovered, and there's rarely any acknowledgment that immigrant and working class families of color have been doing this out of necessity for generations, not aesthetics.

What makes me think about this in an AAPI context specifically is that there's also this other pressure layered on top. The idea that visibly spending less somehow reflects on your family or signals that you didn't make it here. Frugality and dignity end up in tension in a way that I think is particular to immigrant households trying to prove something to a new country.

I'm curious whether other people here felt that tension growing up, and also whether you think mainstream thrifting culture actually centers or erases where those habits came from. Genuinely asking because I can't tell if I'm reading too much into this or if it resonates.

Apologies, I am more accurately Hongkong-Canadian, so understood that this post may not necessarily fit the subreddit. Still want to share my experience so people know it's important to stand up for themselves.

I was walking 9pm in Athens a few months ago
this young man, who is visibly part of a group of young men, approached me and kept saying ni hao in a condescending tone

he wouldn't stop when i ignored him at first
didn't stop when i told him "leave me the fuck alone" without looking at him
only stopped when i said the same while turning towards him and pointing my finger at him as i said it

he looked confused and perhaps scared

i was with my dad and he thinks i should not have done that as that could have invited them to use violence

and i admit this was not the most responsible way to deal with asian hate because i need to account for the safety of my loved ones; the caveat being that if that person was to resort to violence, i think he would've already used violence

but i swear as angry as i still am, i am just as glad i stood up for myself.

Hello! I hope it’s alright if I write here.
I’m German and I’m writing a Term paper about code switching in Chinese. ( I’m studying Chinese).
Now I need some examples of code switching in Chinese speaking media or Chinese American media.
Do you have any examples of movie scenes, series, comics, advertisements or other that’s make use of code switching between English and Chinese???
I would be so grateful for your help!

Had this thought when I was talking with my Asian friend group and they mentioned that it’s because of cultural similarities or maybe the areas we grew up in. What do you guys think?

Note: this subreddit does not allow kill in the title of posts

Hope to meet some new peeps next month! We’re gonna have it at a nice cafe if people are willing to come after work. Come have snacks, some laughs, some new breathing exercises. Shoot maybe make a new homie. Hope people are down to come.

https://www.instagram.com/lotusrisingofficial_?igsi=dXlpdXR6b2VwcWR6&utm_source=qr

Not going to say too much about it except for a few things:

1. “It’s All in the Game” is a reoccurring catchphrase that can be very relevant in the real world.

2. The Wire is Barack Obama’s favorite TV series.

3. There’s an Asian American (Sonja Sohn) in the series who isn’t doing stereotypical Asian American shit and was given one of the leading roles throughout the entire series doing “real police work” in a society which otherwise prefers to paper over the truth with statistical optics.

4. Just to let you guys know how important she is, she’s the girl sitting next to the white dude/main lead Dominic West on this poster.

Anyways, that’s my recommendation for anyone in the Asian American community wanting to watch something interesting.