California Sen. Padilla removed from Noem's news conference
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America seems headed to an angry and ugly place. Inflammatory incidents, rhetoric and dissent unleashed by President Donald Trump’s tough immigration crackdown are inexorably building political pressure as a polarized nation barrels into the heat of summer.
Gavin Newsom as protests against ... The Office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Padilla, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border ...
The incident occurred amid heightened political tensions nationwide, including protests against federal immigration authorities over aggressive sweeps of migrants and immigrants, and deportations.
The sweeps have fueled six days of protests resulting in hundreds of arrests in Los Angeles while demonstrations have spread across the nation.
The Padilla incident, then, represents a continuation of the muddied discourse over the Trump administration’s immigration policy. “We want to get the full scope of what happened,” Senate ...
"There is no justification for the disgusting way Senator Padilla was forcibly removed and handcuffed by FBI agents today."
Alex Padilla (D., Calif ... Noem and others were addressing immigration raids and the federal response to protests that have spread across the city, saying they would forge ahead with their ...