(12 Jun 2025)
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Los Angeles – 12 June 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Alex Padilla, (D) California:
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"I’m here in Los Angeles today, and I was here in the federal building, in the conference room awaiting a scheduled briefing from federal officials as part of my responsibility as a senator to provide oversight and accountability. While I was waiting for the briefing with General Guillot, I learned that Secretary Noem was having a press conference a couple of doors down the hall. Since the beginning of the year, but especially over the course of the last… over the course of recent weeks, I, several of my colleagues, have been asking the Department of Homeland Security for more information and more answers on their increasingly extreme immigration enforcement actions. And we’ve gotten little to no information in response to our inquiries. And so, I came to the press conference to hear what she had to say, to see if I could learn any you additional information. And at one point, I had a question. And let me emphasize, just as we emphasize the right for people to peacefully protest and to stand up for their First Amendment rights, for our fundamental rights, I was there peacefully. At one point I had question. And so I began to ask a question. I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room, I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed. I was not arrested. I was no detained. I will say this, If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable."
2. Sen. Alex Padilla being removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference
STORYLINE:
Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Emerging afterward, Padilla told reporters he and his colleagues have asked the department for more information on their “increasingly extreme immigration enforcement actions” and received little to no information.
“If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question … I can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the Los Angeles community, and throughout California and throughout the country,” he said.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing Padilla by his jacket Thursday and shoving him from the room as he tried to interrupt Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said Padilla “chose disrespectful political theater and interrupted a live news conference.” They claimed erroneously that Padilla did not identify himself and said Secret Service believed him to be an attacker.
AP video by Krysta Fauria
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