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Padilla incident further increases immigration confrontation between Trump and Democrats
Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was eliminated by the force of a press conference in Los Angeles after trying to question the Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem during a press conference related to immigration, Rebecca Shabad and Jacob Soboroff report.
He marked the last escalation in the battle between President Donald Trump and the Democrats about the administration’s deportation plans and the protests that have been in response.
The incident: “I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” Padilla told Noem, which led several men to physically get him out of the room.
The Padilla office shared a video of the incident with NBC News that shows that the senator was taken to a corridor outside and pushed his face to the ground while officers with FBI identifiers vests told the senator to put his hands behind his back. The officers handcuffed him.
Speaking to journalists later on Thursday, Padilla said he was receiving an informative session of military officers when he knew that Noem was in the same building and decided to join his information.
“If this is how this administration answers a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of National Security answers a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they are doing to agricultural workers, chefs, daily workers in the community of Los Angeles and in all California and throughout the country,” said Padilla.
DHS responded in X, falsely stating that Padilla “interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself.”
“Mr. Padilla repeatedly told them to backed down and did not comply with the repeated orders of the officers,” said DHS, claiming that the agents “thought he was an attacker and the officers acted properly. The Secretary Noem met with Senator Padilla later and celebrated a 15 -minute meeting.”
How the Democrats responded: The incident caused a greater outrage of the Democrats.
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., denounced the incident on the Senate floor. “I just saw something that made my stomach sick, the abuse of a senator from the United States. We need immediate answers to what happened,” he said.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris described the incident “an abuse of being able to be able to be able to
How the Republican Party replied: Meanwhile, the Republicans greatly criticized Padilla.
“Padilla didn’t want answers; I wanted attention,” said White House spokesman Abigail Jackson. “Padilla was ashamed of his constituents with this immature theater trick.”
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of La-La., Called the “very inappropriate” Padilla actions, saying that “they rise to the level of censorship.”
But Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, described the “very disturbing” episode, saying “it seems that she is being physically mistreated and eliminated and it is difficult to imagine a justification for that”.
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How the ‘big and beautiful ticket’ would add fuel to Trump’s deportation agenda
Jonathan Allen analysis
If you like immigration confrontation in Los Angeles, you will love the draft internal policy law pending before Congress.
Although the measure would reduce the expense for many weapons of the federal government, it would pour more than $ 150 billion in border security, the application of interior immigration and deportations.
That includes $ 75 billion for the application of immigration and customs alone. Taking advantage, $ 8 billion are destined to hire 10,000 agents more than ICE and support personnel, and almost $ 900 million more are involved in the legislation to give bonds to ice recruits and agents who commit to remain in their work for five years. The objective is an increase of approximately 50% in the size of the agency.
Trump’s allies expect money for ICE, who is carrying out raids in the workplace such as those in question in Los Angeles, will allow the administration to increase their efforts to stop immigrants who are in the country illegally and try to follow the president’s promise to deport people by millions.
“If you want to do it on this scale, the required scale will have to have more people,” said Rachel Bovard, vice president of policy programs of the Conservative Association Institute, a non -profit organization closely aligned with Trump’s agenda.
That is happening in the context of the disaster in Los Angeles, where Trump deployed the National Guard and the Marines in the style of the nesting wrist to protect federal agents and property. The guard is there to protect the ice from the protesters, some of whom have been violent, and the Marines are there to protect the guard.
California officials have opposed the raids in the workplace and the president’s decision to activate the guard without the consent of Governor Gavin Newsom, who is demanding to stop Trump. White House officials have threatened to arrest Newsom and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, if they violate any law by delaying raids and military presence.
The battle among politicians became physical on Thursday when Senator Alex Padilla, a Democrat of California, approached the Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem at a press conference organized in Los Angeles. Padilla was removed by force from the room, pushed to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents after he tried to ask Noem a question.
It seems that there is no end for climbing. And while there is no way to predict the future, there may soon be enough money to make sure it looks a lot to those of the present
🗞️ The other main stories today
- ➡️ Middle East Update: Israel is considering taking military measures against Iran, most likely without the support of the United States, in the next few days, even when President Donald Trump is in advanced discussions with Tehran on a diplomatic agreement to reduce his nuclear program. Read more →
- ✂️ In the cutting block: The Chamber led by Republicans voted to approve Trump’s request to recover $ 9.4 billion in federal funds previously approved for foreign aid and public transmission. Read more →
- 🎤 Welcome to Washington: Chamber Republicans faced democratic governments. Kathy Hochul from New York, JB Pritzker by Illinois and Tim Walz by Minnesota during a tense immigration audience in Capitol Hill. Read more →
- 🪧 Protest disturbances: Some The extreme left groups have encouraged peaceful protests to become violent, even in Los Angeles, experts told NBC News. Read more →
- 🛜 Protest disturbances, cont. Russia is amplifying online conspiracy theories about Los Angeles’s protests against immigration raids. Read more →
- 🔵 HOGG OUT: Progressive activist David Hogg said he will not apply for the vice president of the National Democratic Committee again after the committee requested a reba of the February elections. Read more →
- ⚖️ Scotus Watch: The Supreme Court revived a lawsuit against the FBI derived from an incident in which the agents raided the wrong house in Atlanta. Read more →
- 📝 Signed, sealed, delivered: Trump signed the resolutions that prohibit California’s mandate on sales of electric vehicles and diesel engine rules. Read more →
- 🎉 You are invited after all: Trump said on social networks that the senator “Of course” Rand Paul, Republican of R-Ky. Read more →
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That’s all of the politics desk for now. Today’s bulletin was compiled by Adam Wollner and Dylan EBS.
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