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It is a simple gesture, really. A glance over the shoulder. How many of us have done this? But for the Rev. Gilbert Sim, that glance tells the grim reality his San Diego congregants and Asian Americans around the country have been living.
“Many of us actually are terrified by the incidents, by how this whole thing got escalated so fast,” says Sim, who is the pastor of First Chinese Southern Baptist Church in Clairemont Mesa. “All of a sudden, there are thousands of cases.”
And this is when he turns his head and looks over his shoulder. “We don’t like that feeling,” he says. “Nobody likes that feeling.”
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San Diego County has prohibited the region’s 18 tribes from expanding their reservations for more than two decades. That ban, which was put into place when casino operations were proliferating at the turn of the century, could soon be lifted.
County Supervisors Jim Desmond and Nora Vargas will propose Wednesday that the county repeal previously approved resolutions stifling tribal growth.
As part of the action, it would remove a blanket opposition to tribes processing so-called fee-to-trust applications, which transfer land purchased by tribes or tribal members to a trust under the U.S. government, allowing tribes to govern and benefit from that land instead of the county.
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