The US Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, speaks on June 17, 2025 about the Senate floor about how he was violently removed from a press conference with the secretary for home protection. (Screenshot from the Senate Webcast)
Washington – The US Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat who was violently removed by a press conference with the secretary of the homeland protection administration, said on Tuesday that his home state of the test area for the advance of President Donald Trump, the military within the United States.
Trump uses immigrants in the country without legal status as a scapegoat to send troops, said Padilla, who suffocated in a speech on the ground of the Senate when he said how he was wrestled by law enforcement officers. “I refuse to leave immigrants political farmers on their way to fascism,” said Padilla.
There is talk on the first floor that the senior senator from California has kept since then The highly published incident in Los Angeles Last week. The secret service tied up Padilla with handcuffs after trying to question the secretary of the home protection authority, Kristi Noem, who defended himself against the decision of reporters Trump to send 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 marines to LA.
Trump sent the troops after multi-day protests against immigration and customs authorities and against the wishes of California Governor Gavin Newsom. An appellate court on Tuesday is the hearing Arguments on a suit of California, who claimed that the president had illegally taken control of the national guard.
“He wants the spectacle,” said Padilla about the president. “To justify his undemocratic approach and his authoritarian power.”
The La protests were triggered after iron depots, where workers usually search for work without papers, searched for immigration attacks.
Detections, confrontations
The Padilla incident, which is widespread on video, was a mighty escalation of the tensions between democratic legislators and the administration on Trump’s efforts to make mass shifts.
A democratic house is a member of New Jersey In the face of federal costs Regarding the allegations that she pushed immigration officers as she protested against the opening of a migrant home in Newark. And on Tuesday ICE officers arrested in New York City City Compotroller and Mayor candidate Brad Lander while accompanieding an immigrant to her hearing before the immigration court The Associated Press.
In a statement by the states’ newsroom, the deputy DHS deputy secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said “had been arrested for attacks on the prosecution and the disability of a federal official”.
“Nobody stands above the law, and if you put a hand for a law enforcement officer, you will have consequences,” said McLaughlin.
The president tardy Sunday ICE showed to carry out immigration attacks in New York, LA and Chicago, the three most populous cities in the nation, which are listed by elected Democrats in strongly democratic states.
“We will follow the president’s instruction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst illegal foreigners from the American roads from the American roads,” said McLaughlin.
“They opened the door for me”
Padilla in his Senate made a report on the events that led to he was tied up and arrested with handcuffs last week.
On June 12, he had planned a meeting with General Gregory M. Guillot, the commander of the US North Command, to discuss the military presence in LA.
Padilla, the top democrat in a judicial body that monitors the DHS and immigration policy, said his meeting with the general was delayed by a press conference towards Noem.
Padilla said he tried to speak to DHS because LA has been “a worrying pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration authorities for weeks who have appealed to the places of worship, at schools, in court buildings.”
So Padilla said that he asked to take part in the press conference, and a member of the National Guard and an FBI agent accompany it inside.
“You opened the door for me,” he said.
When he listened, he said that a comment from Noem was forced to ask a question.
“We don’t go away,” said Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, the press. “We stay here to free the city from the socialists and the stressful leadership that this governor and this mayor have put into this country and what they tried to classify the city.”
Padilla said her comments made him as a “un -American mission statement”.
“This cannot be the mission of the federal law enforcement of the federal and the United States military,” he said. “Are we really ready to live in a country in which the President can use the armed forces to decide which governors and mayors, which are elected properly, can lead their voters?”
Padilla said before he could end his question, he was physically removed and the member of the National Guard and the FBI agent who accompanied him into the room stood “still and knew who I was.”
When he said that he was tied up with handcuffs, Padilla paused and became emotional.
“I was first forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest,” he said.
Padilla said a flood of questions went through my head when he marched along a hallway, and when he kept asking why he was arrested: where do you bring me? What will be a city that is already militarized on the edge of the militar. What will my wife think? What will our boys think?
“I also remember that it was really worth it? Padilla asked.” If a Senator of the United States is too afraid to comment, how can we expect another American to do the same? “
Padilla-Moo-Meting
In a statement that DHS, said That the secret service did not know that Padilla was a US senator, although a video of the incident shows that Padilla stated that he was a member of the Senate.
“I am Senator Alex Padilla and have questions about the secretary,” he said when four federal officials grabbed him and pushed him to the ground.
Noem met Padilla after being tied up with handcuffs, his office told Stand’s Newsroom.
“He expressed concerns about the use of armed forces and the unnecessary escalation in the past week,” said his office. “And he expressed his frustration about the continued lack of reaction of this government. It was a civilian, short meeting, but the secretary did not give any meaningful answers. The Senator simply tried to do his work and seek answers for the people he represents in California.”
The US house spokesman Mike Johnson has suggested that the Senate took measures against Padilla, such as: B. a censorship. Johnson criticized the Senator’s actions and accused him of having accused Noem of what Padilla cannot be seen in the several videos of the incident.
“I am not in this chamber, but I think that from other colleagues there deserves immediately,” said Louisiana’s republican. “I think the behavior increases at least the censor level. I think there must be a message that is sent by the body as a whole.”
Senate Democrats have teamed up their support in Padilla. During a press conference on Tuesday, Chuck Schumer Padilla praised his speech on the ground of the Senate.
“It was basically a strong plea for America to regain the gyroscope of democracy that has been leading us forward for so many years, and now we lose it,” said the New York Democrat. “It is a wake -up call for all Americans.”
Jennifer Shutt contributed to this report.
