A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here . CNN  —  The American immigration drama offers a unique Rorschach test for the moment. Do you find the deployment of troops to Los Angeles menacing or comforting? When you see video of a US senator, Democrat Alex Padilla of California, being forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press event, do you wonder what was he thinking or her people