Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120308:15:51:00
Them, and last year, more than a thousand of them. what do you think is behind the big increases? >> well, for the first seven or eight years of that long, steady rise of hate groups, it was really the exploitation of the issue of illegal immigration by hate groups. it was remarkable how we saw klan groups drop about their propaganda about the evils of black people and gay people in order to concentrate on the illegal immigration. it was successful because that was an issue with broad resonance in the american public. and it allowed them to recruit fairly successfully. in the last three years,...