"If they’re willing to do this to a United States senator representing the state of California, just imagine how it’s going with their immigration enforcement."
"If this 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 ..."
"How many Americans in the year 2025 see a vindictive president on a tour of retribution?"
"federal troops be immediately removed from the city."
"How do you not recognize one of two senators in our state? He is not just any senator; he is the first Latino senator to ever represent our state."
"Madam Secretary, I do not recognize you anymore."
"By night, several dozen lawbreakers became violent and destructive, they vandalized property, they tried to assault police officers."
"I was there peacefully. At one point I had a question, and so I began to ask a question."
"This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control."
"California will sue to stop this latest illegal action by a President who is a wholly-owned subsidiary of big polluters."
"If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and through..."
"If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you."
"What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty. Your silence. To be complicit in this moment."
"he’s acting like a “dictator.”"
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the raids 'chaotic federal sweeps' that aimed to fill an 'arbitrary arrest quota.'"
"California may be first – but it clearly won’t end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next."
"I encourage everybody to please peacefully protest – just like I was calmly and peacefully listening in that press conference."
