Apartheid. USA 1988

July 8, 1987:

John van de Kamp, the Attorney-General of California has said that the state needed Federal assistance to combat a growing problem of law enforcement posed by gangs of Asian immigrants. He said, that as the state's Asian population continues to soar, immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea and Japan are becoming increasingly involved in prostitution, illegal gambling, drug trafficking, burglary, robbery and other crimes. State and local police agencies are unable to cope with the problem alone. ‘The traditional organizations of the Mafia, or La Cosa Nostra, control a relatively small and unimportant part of criminal activity here,’ Van de Kamp said. ‘The biggest and fastest-growing threats to public safety come from newer forms of organized crime.’^129.

129. The New York Times, from a report by Robert Lindsay