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on the issue of immigration reform. after republicans took a historic shellacking among hispanic voters in the november election, what has been one of the most divisive issues in our recent politics suddenly has lawmakers on both sides ready to make some sort of a deal. despite the momentum, there were the predictable efforts to sink a comprehensive immigration deal. there are people who are coming here who want to come to cut your lawn and have a better life. but there are people who want to cut your throat. empb after protests like that, senate republicans passed a bipartisan immigration bill last summer. today the thousands of desperate children coming to the united states seem to have erased that. joining me now, chip berlet. co-author of building democracy. chip, you ve been covering anti-immigration movements, nativist movements for decades. it seems to me there was a kind of period of there was a lull in their activism and this crisis seems to have sort of a wakened a sl