8A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 17, 2006 NEWS Non-Hispanic immigrants wonder what immigration reform means for them 40 Hispanics lead movement demanding path to citizenship while other groups play ambigious role LOS ANGELES (AP) - As a Pakistani, Hamid Khan stood out among the Hispanics he marched alongside at a recent immigration law protest. When he told one demon- strator where he was from, the man responded:"'Then what are you doing here?"' Khan was surprised. "I said 'Look, there are non-Latino groups who are also suffering under these laws,"' said Khan, 49, a commercial pilot and director of an advocacy group called the South Asian Network. Hispanics, the nation's largest immigrant group, are leading the movement to demand a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and defeat legislation that would crimi- nalize them. Khan's experience provides a glimpse into the ambigu- ous role non-Hispanic immigrants play in a public debate that has yet to fully include them. While some Asian, European and Middle Eastern immigrants are supporting calls for sweeping immigra- tion reform, many who are here illegally have shied from the public debate either because they feel Congress has overlooked needs specific to their communities or simply because they're afraid to come forward. Forty-eight percent of the nation's 34 million for- eign-born immigrants come from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and countries such as Canada, with the remainder coming from Latin America, according to the Census Bureau. But of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, fully 78 percent come from Latin America, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. The next largest undocu- mented population comes from Asia, with 13 percent. While all illegal immigrants could benefit from pro- posals in Congress that would give them a chance at citi- zenship, many non-Hispanic immigrants say lawmakers should take into account their reasons for coming to the country illegally. "In the Latino community, people come here illegally for jobs," said H. Chang, a 23-year-old Korean college student who asked her full name not be used because her parents are living in Los Angeles illegally. "For us, a whole family comes here for a student, and many stay illegally." Discussions on increasing visas have focused on guest worker programs for low-skilled laborers, not people like Chang's parents. For Vietnamese immigrants, a central complaint is the waiting period before relatives are allowed to join them, which can be 10 years, said Duc Nguyen, a 31-year-old Vietnamese health worker who lives in Orange.. He said he doesn't see Congress considering that aspect. "Why are they (lawmakers) only doing a half reform?" asked Nguyen, who said he went to a few demonstrations but only to watch. A bill passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, which some Hispanic advocacy groups called a good compromise because it included steps to citizenship for illegal immigrants, also would fortify the borders, Man accused of killing girl as part of plan to eat flesh Suspect in girl's killing described as quiet, humorless -'wonderful boy,' says his mom PURCELL, Okla. (AP) - The man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism on his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned "dangerously weird" fantasies. All he wanted in life, Kevin Ray Underwood wrote in his blog, was "to be able to live like a normal person." People who knew Underwood described him yesterday as a quiet, "boring" and seemingly trustworthy young man. His mother who lived across town called him a "wonderful boy." "This is something that I don't know where it came from," Connie Underwood said of her son through tears in a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press. "I would like to be able to tell her family how sorry we are. I just feel so terrible." Kevin Underwood, a 26-year-old grocery store stocker in this small community 40 miles south of Oklahoma City, was arrested Friday. Investigators searched his apartment after he aroused their suspicions at a checkpoint, and found a large plastic tub in a bedroom closet. According to a police affidavit, he confessed that he killed Jamie Rose Bolin, tell- ing FBI agents: "Go ahead and arrest me. She is in there. I chopped her up." Jamie's unclothed body was inside the tub, along with a towel used to soak up blood, officials said. Police said that, while there were deep saw marks on the girl's neck, she had not been dismembered. Kevin Underwood, who is to be formally charged with first-degree murder Monday, lived alone in an apartment downstairs from the one where Jamie lived with her father. Authorities believe Kevin Underwood killed the girl Wednesday, when she disappeared after going to a library, by beating and smothering her.- Investigators found meat tenderizer and barbecue skew- ers that he planned to use on the body, McClain County District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said. On his blog, an online diary that he had kept since Sep- tember 2002, Kevin Underwood described himself as "sin- gle, bored, and lonely, but other than that, pretty happy." He mentions cannibalism, asking "If you were a canni- bal, what would you wear to dinner?" and responding: "The skin of last night's main course." In an entry dated Feb. 4, 2006, Kevin Underwood wrote that he struggled with depression and social interaction. "Pretty much the only time I believe in God is when I blame him for something," he said. "Or, when I'm really depressed, to cry and beg him to make me better, to make whatever is wrong in my brain go away, so that I can live like a normal person. "That's all I want in life, is to be able to live like a normal person." AP PHOTO Pakistani Immigrant Hamid Khan, a naturalized U.S. citizen, holds an altered photograph showing the Statue of Liberty behind bars during a small demonstration against proposed immigration legislation in Los Angeles April 3. expand immigration detention centers and speed up depor- tation proceedings. That sent shivers through communities of Middle East- ern immigrants, who already feel scrutinized since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "That's part of the reason why our community hasn't rushed out to protest," said Sabiha Khan, spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Southern California. "They are afraid of what will happen to them with immigration reform" Still, the council and numerous activist groups repre- senting non-Hispanic immigrants have encouraged par- ticipation in the marches, both in solidarity with others and to ensure that their own voices are heard. , "If we just look at the Latino community coming out, we are missing the bigger picture," said Eun-Sook Lee, direc- tor of the National Korean American Service and Educa- tion Consortium. Hispanic groups have been contacting other immigrant groups to boost participation in the next national protest planned for May 1, said Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican-American Political Association. 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