Marena Lin, CA-32 candidate, 2026 primary election questionnaire

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The OBBBA cut Medicaid for millions while the top 10% of earners saw incomes rise 2.7%.
57% : Solar tax credits, EV incentives, and efficiency rebates put money directly in household budgets while reducing emissions.
56% : A functioning system is better border security than a punitive one.
56% : Medicare for All.
54% : Speaking of voter ID, the president has implored Congress to approve legislation that would require people to show proof of citizenship in order to vote.
54% : This is the same mechanism Congress used to give ICE $75 billion in the OBBBA.
54% : As a climate scientist, I take this seriously, and I know regulation works when it's designed to protect people rather than punish them.
54% : The Green New Deal must be updated to address this: tech companies that are driving massive new energy demand should pay for the infrastructure and environmental costs they impose, through mechanisms like an AI consumption tax on enterprise-level services, rather than passing those costs onto ratepayers and communities.
53% : For example, do you place a priority on border security, visas for high-skilled workers, refuge for asylum seekers, etc., and why?
52% : By folding immigration enforcement back into the same agency as immigration services, the way it was in INS before ICE's inception in 2003, we can solve border security by resolving the immigration processing backlog, therefore removing the incentives for unauthorized crossings.
52% : Do you support stronger regulations on pollution and carbon emissions?
51% : Article 1, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the authority to define or change regulations for federal elections.
51% : Congress, in theory, is supposed to serve as a check on the president through budgetary, legislative and oversight powers.
50% : For regulation to work without burdening small businesses, it must target the biggest polluters, not the smallest actors.
49% : The asylum case backlog, as of February 2026, is over 3 million cases, and rather than designating additional funding to USCIS to address it, the OBBBA instead created an annualized $29 billion ICE budget.
49% : Before the OBBBA gutted it, the IRA created 334,000 clean energy jobs, drove $115 billion in manufacturing investment, and directed those investments disproportionately into lower-income communities, including in districts whose representatives voted against the law.
47% : Climate and environment: I would fight to restore the IRA's clean energy incentives that the OBBBA killed: the 30% solar credit, EV incentives, and efficiency rebates that created over 300,000 jobs and $115 billion in investment before being gutted.
47% : If so, how would you ensure those regulations aren't overly burdensome on small businesses or lower-income families?
47% : A $3.2 billion police budget is not producing safety.
46% : I am the daughter of immigrants and the only candidate in this race to have paroled an asylum seeker from months of inhumane ICE detention in 2019.
45% : Immigration reform: I would introduce appropriations riders to abolish ICE and immigrant detention and fold immigration enforcement back into the same agency as immigration services, the way it was under INS before 2003.
45% : I would co-sponsor Medicare for All legislation and fight to repeal the OBBBA's healthcare cuts immediately through standalone legislation.
44% : I would update the Green New Deal to address AI and crypto's exploding energy demand: Data centers consumed 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023, projected to triple by 2028.
44% : These are cameras that have been caught sharing data with ICE in violation of California law.
43% : A tax deferral provision ensures this doesn't create a financial barrier to public service.
40% : From voter ID to war powers and from immigration to tariffs, Congress has tackled many issues over the past year.
39% : How would you ensure that any military spending does not end up putting the American people or national security in harm's way?
38% : This is a poll tax, violating the 24th Amendment.
36% : The overriding narrative of immigration is that it is a border security problem, but the actual bottleneck is what happens after people arrive.
36% : I will fight to abolish ICE and immigrant detention.
33% : We cannot credibly advocate for international human rights while sending weapons to Israel while they are committing genocide.

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