Column: A trip to the U.S. Capitol reminds me what I celebrate this Fourth of July

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : The temperature around immigration is even nastier than during the days of Prop. 187, the ballot initiative that California voters passed 30 years ago in an attempt to make life miserable for undocumented immigrants.
29% : Besides, I'll take his fuddy-duddiness over the dictatorial doom-and-gloom and lies Trump offered that night.
27% : But Biden broke my heart, because he stayed mostly silent while Trump lambasted immigrants as the gravest threat this nation has ever faced.
27% : When we needed someone to stand up for our nation's newcomers, to brag about how this country remains a beacon for the tired and poor huddled masses of the world instead of the "failing nation" Trump thinks we are (a point he repeated five times), Biden instead insisted he was far better at cracking down on illegal immigration than Trump made him out to be.

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