Do Asians benefit from general affirmative action laws? Certainly, in areas where they are in fact a minority (which is practically everywhere outside of Hawai'i and California) and where there aren't state laws barring AA.
I have never heard of an Asian, Indian or Persian getting affirmative action. On the contrary, I have seen white people with much lower SAT and high school GPAs get into better colleges than many of the Asians and Indians I have met. My friend (who is Jewish, not Asian or Indian with an axe to grind) did a research project in college about non-URM minority college admissions, and he found that it is statistically harder for an Asian or Indian person to get into Harvard than a WHITE person with the same scores. He had shocking quotes from an Ivy League admissions officer with things like "we don't like to admit too many Asians because they are socially awkward, isolate themselves from other races and add little to the overall campus environment." Personal experience at one of the more 'Asian' UC schools reflected this in my experience as well. It seemed like the Asians and Indians I talked to always have higher SAT and GPAs than the white kids.
Maybe it's different in law school, but I doubt it. Every school I applied to, whether in CA, midwest, or east coast had more Asians than all the other minorities combined. Furthermore, the premises on which AA are based have been pretty much destroyed by the fact that Persians, Indians and many Asians went from poor to RICH in ONE GENERATION. Help out the poor people, but lazy people of any race don't deserve special treatment. Hard working people of all races deserve it.
You need to re-read my original post. I said "general affirmative action laws", since affirmative action covers a hell of a lot more than just getting into college. Asians, where they are a minority, are included in programs which benefit other racial minorities, not just AA, NA/IA and Latino/a peoples, aka URMs.
And you do know that Indians and Persians are in fact Asians? (I'm confused as to why you're naming them as distinct.) Do you mean East Asians, e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Koreans,along with Indians and Persians?