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Can somehow repeal it. arizona's papers please law, sb-1070, the mosque protests. we've seen these things covered separately and identified as separate stories. are they separate things or are they in some way interconnected? >> i think it is part of an interconnected series of rising xenophobic and anti-foreign sentiment. particularly with immigration, every time there is a major economic downturn, you see new anti-immigrant measures. in 1929, president hoover launched what he called the repatriating. they swept around the southwest finding people of mexican original origin and kicking them b...

Others, in a way that we never had before 9/11. i think what's happening, when the economy goes down, people become anxious. you see a lot of increase in xenophobia, in fear and intolerance. and we've got the conservative movement leaders, very opportunisticly trying to play on people's anxieties and build this kind of anti-muslim hysteria in a way that president bush never did in 2001 and 2002. >> the 14th amendment redefinition, the idea that you can somehow repeal it. arizona's papers please law, sb-1070, the mosque protests. we've seen these things covered separately and identified as sepa...

Any time after the week after 9/11 and if so, why? and if not, why does it seem that way? >> it seems to me there is. it is much more visible than it used to be. we're seeing it stoked by sarah palin birk night gingrich, by others in ways we never had by 9/11. i think what's happening, when the economy goes down, people become anxious. you see a lot of increase in fear and intolerance. and we've got the conservative movement leaders, very opportunistic trying to play on people's anxieties and build this kind of anti-muslim hysteria in a way that president bush never did in 2001 and 2002. >> th...