Julia Brownly defeated Antonio Sabato Junior because Sabato took a hard stance against illegal immigration.
Brownley supports the DREAM Act, the Affordable Care Act, and same-sex marriage. Brownley voted on Nov. 19, 2015, for HR 4038, legislation that would effectively halt the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq to the United States. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, is a United States legislative proposal to grant temporary conditional residency, with the right to work, to immigrants who entered the United States as minorsand, if they later satisfy further qualifications, they would attain permanent residency. 
