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NYC forces Asian students to share ‘sensitive’ background info: ‘CCP would love it’
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NYC forces Asian students to share ‘sensitive’ background info: ‘CCP would love it’

Asian students in Big Apple public schools are being forced to reveal their countries of origin when signing up for after-school activities — a controversial policy promoted by a Hochul government adviser now accused of being a Chinese spy.

Only Asian students are asked for such details about where they came from, and critics say forcing them to register their homeland could endanger dissidents’ families and others.

“I bet the CCP would love to get their hands on a list like this,” said one parent, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.

Now disgraced former Hochul Councilor Linda Sun was supposed to limit data collection on the city’s DOE forms to a few specific territories. Paul Martinka

A law 2021 signed by Hochul — and promoted by her now-disgraced former assistant Linda Sun — should limit data collection on city Department of Education forms to just a few specific territories.

Instead, a DOE form this fall asked applicants to check off which of 20 Asian countries students’ families are from.

The form includes politically sensitive countries such as Taiwan, Tibet, and North and South Korea.

Sun has been in meetings with parent activists who fought the overreaching legislation and was seen in photos leading sessions with them when the governor failed. Asian activists who vetoed the 2021 bill recall that Sun advocated hard for the legislation.

Supporters of the bill have argued that the data is needed for everything from fighting anti-Asian hate crimes to community service organizations applying for funding.

Sun and her husband were arrested Sept. 3 on Long Island and charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy — a series of charges that together paint them as Chinese foreign agents, critics have charged. They pleaded not guilty.

A survey for the My School account that asked the very psychic country of origin for Asians only. Obtained by The New York Post
A protest for Free Tibet makes its way through the city centre. Gabriella Bass

Tibet and Taiwan have long fought for independence from China, and New York immigrants from those countries could be at risk if their data falls into the wrong hands, lawyers said.

“We are outraged that elected officials and officials, especially those representing Asian neighborhoods, have done little or no outreach to their constituencies to get input and feedback,” Asian Wave Alliance president Yiatin Chu told The Post when the DOE form appeared in September.

Legislation requiring minorities to disclose their countries of origin “perpetuates the myth of us as ‘foreigners forever,’ when in fact many Asians in New York are multigenerational Americans,” Chu added.