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Levins of the world is what they pitch is victimhood. their base is an older white male they've been preaching for something like 30 years. this idea you are a victim. >> we heard last year, didn't we, this notion of taking back your nation. the nation is changing. let's go back to the '50s. >> exactly. that the country is being stolen from you, the other people are doing it. it is in their interest to pitch this message. immigration reform, it plays right into it, the idea these people are taking over the country and coming in and stealing welfare benefits. i have to tell you the suspicion in...

Bloody knife, media will refer to them as an alleged murderer until conviction. why would we use illegal immigrant, a phrase that contradicts the presumption of innocence? in the supreme court's 2012 ruling on arizona's sb-1070, justice anthony kennedy writing for the majority said "it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the u.s." he also wrote it's not a crime to seek or engage in unauthorized employment. so the phrase is inaccurate, leading and loaded, purposely planting visions of unwanted people flouting laws and being a plague upon this country instead of unlucky peo...

Looking for undocumented immigrants. so there has been this particularly negative experience felt in the latino community. >> it allows for things like the sb 1070 and the entire capacity to profile is based on the way we use language to define what an immigrant is and what an immigrant body looks like. >> yeah. and one is the notion that immigration or illegal immigrant is a euphemism for latinos. it erases the history of immigration in the united states. any group being targeted at any moment in u.s. history has been called illegal. from the moment benjamin franklin was calling the germans s...

Racists trying to get votes, does that perpetuate the thing when the white supremacists take it even further? >> well, yeah. it feeds into the view of white supremacists that there are at love white folks who hate immigrants as much as they. do brown skinned immigrants. they don't care about those who come from places like england. it makes them feel like the political system is playing into their belief system. often time you see hate groups trying to glom on to organizations. they certainly backed all those sb 1070 type laws that passed here in alabama. so yeah, it is feeding the beast. >> i...

Again in 2016, but he has his eye on the larger state, not just those town hall people who made the news, but the fact that in arizona, people are becoming more moderate. we saw that with the voting out of russell pierce, the architect of sb-1070. we see a booming latino electorate, a growth of over 70% in over a decade and a latino senate prospect doing very well. so we have to zoom the lens out and look at the larger context that, yes, you are going to have your nay sayers like we did in this town hall, but overwhelmingly the country is moving toward a more moderate stance on immigration. >>...