The day after Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin won a ruling by a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on immigration, Yunji de Nies sat down with the Chinese-American prosecutor to learn more about his history dealing with discrimination — and why this issue is a bit of an emotional one for him.

Veteran broadcast journalist Yunji de Nies is joining Civil Beat to help beef up our multimedia reporting. Raised on the Big Island, Yunji is a graduate of Yale University with a master’s degree from University of California, Berkeley. She is a former ABC News White House and national correspondent. Most recently, she anchored the evening news at KITV.