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=== User: Stay true to my words but break up the long wordy bits, and suggest some better conclusions. ===
Stay true to my words but break up the long wordy bits, and suggest some better conclusions. Give me stronger riffs on what I wrote, but also suggestions for a concluding paragraph based solely on what I wrote before and what you know about my work/views on immigration issues in this day and age:

I took the plunge and entered the ICE/USCIS field office in downtown Chicago today and, wow….

I had an amazing experience! 😮 🙌 

The caveat here is that I didn’t interact directly with ICE or take the elevator up to their fourth-floor offices - I’ll do that once I’m connected to a client with business there - but I have nothing but good things to say about the first three floors. A full account of my time is in the video, but suffice to say that before I left I had made friends with multiple staff members. That included the security supervisor on the third floor, which houses a court room and holds citizenship interviews, who thanked me for being there “because the only way people will know what’s really happening here is if people show up and observe”, and introduced me to USCIS staff who answered my questions and proudly described their work expediting citizenship applications for service members at the nearby Great Lakes Naval Station.

It was extremely encouraging to see that here, in a city with nearly a million residents of Central and South American descent, I could spend an hour in a downtown immigration office and see care, kindness, professionalism, and many happy faces of folks learning they had passed their citizenship test. 

We must still fight the abuses we see, on the news, in executive orders, at places like Alligator Alcatraz where most of the reports and perceptions we’ve received were indeed true. But we should take faith knowing there is much good, and that the task is not to blow up a system but to allow us to continue to be the land of the free.