However, immigration policy would shift from creating a pathway for undocumented individuals to detaining and deporting them after the September 11th attacks. Hari Kondabolu describes how after &lt;a href="September%2011%20attacks"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt; many people were being beaten up or harassed due to their brown skin, including Indian and Sikh people. The murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi is one such instance mentioned in the episode. Norman Mineta reflects on discussions he heard in the White House that hoped the rise in Arab hate would not escalate into repeating the discrimination that Mineta and other Japanese faced in 1942 with internment camps. Kondabolu said that even though there were not overt concentration camps that there was still quiet and quick deportations, such as the case of Ansar Mahmood. The episode brings to light how the call from immigration rights activists united various groups together to protest the passage of the DREAM Act and other immigrant protections, echoing past coalitions of solidarity between marginalized groups in the United States.