Mike Pence took time on the Fourth of July to celebrate immigrants, in a nice little screw-you to the people being held in cages and abused on the border. Pence spoke at a naturalization ceremony and tweeted in myth-making fashion about his own immigrant grandfather:
Pence’s grandfather, of course, benefited from the immigration laws of the time, which restricted immigration by country, favoring Northern Europeans. So Pence’s lionization of his grandfather as an immigrant in that moment is entirely appropriate to Donald Trump’s racist immigration rhetoric and policies, no matter how much Pence is trying to play at having a pro-immigrant moment.