This is the actual quote from page 261:
“Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds
You left out “shift in an ugly direction.” Didn’t that shift happen in Boston and in Oklahoma where a woman was beheaded by a Muslim and at Fort Hood? There have been many more shifts, like replacing our Constitution with sharia.