Dhopte, 45, said that when he moved to New Jersey in 2008, he provided his naturalization papers as proof of citizenship when he registered to vote, and was told many other Asian Americans did the same thing. “We are first-generation immigrants, that is, most of us came to the U.S. for work and then got citizenship and settled here.... We are hard-working people, very aware of the law, and we would not break election laws and commit fraud. That’s just insane,” said Dhopte, an IT manager at Johnson & Johnson. He is married and has two children, including a son who attends Princeton University.