Bay Area Appears To Side With Trump On Affirmative Action

CBS San Francisco Bay Area

Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet K. Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006. After many years serving as our Managing Partner, she departed the firm in 2025 to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Trump administration is reopening the heated debate over race and college admissions and it turns out the Bay Area may be overwhelmingly against affirmative action too.

Republican National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon said, “On merit the Asians would be occupying 90 percent of U.C. Berkeley based on test scores.”

She says it’s not just the Chinese who are opposed to bringing back affirmative action in admissions.

Dhillon said, “I’d say every Asian Community – Indian American, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hmong, all of these communities in my experience, have been agitating.”

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Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet K. Dhillon founded Dhillon Law Group in 2006. After many years serving as our Managing Partner, she departed the firm in 2025 to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.