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Let’s do it peacefully, because that is our right.

First Amendment rights are a beautiful thing, and they need to be utilized.

It’s all BS coming from Trump.

I understand their plight, I understand their struggle, I understand their sacrifice to just find the American dream: a good opportunity, maybe a good job, the ability to raise a family, and have the next generation have it a little bit…

If they’re willing to do this to me, a United States senator representing the state of California, just imagine how it’s going with their immigration enforcement on the streets.

We're not going to solve anything by chasing people at car washes, by intimidating families in their schools or by sending troops into an American city.

We are here today because the raids have caused fear and panic.

Maybe he actually believed he said those things and he’s not all there. I mean that.

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 farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and…

Because the fact of the matter is, she has a half dozen violent criminals on rotation.

I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary.

If this is how the DHS responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, cooks, day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.

If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question … You can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the Los Angeles community, and throughout California and throughout…

There are entire sectors of our economy that will not function if the immigrant community is too afraid to go to work and too afraid to go to school.

You better shoot straight.

If we don’t show up, Democracy dies.

Today was a tremendous victory for sanity in California. I had the opportunity to join President Trump at the White House where he signed into law a resolution I introduced to reverse Gavin Newsom's ban on gas cars once and for all. I want…

In just 1 week, this administration has conducted raids into my community to meet arbitrary deportation quotas. They have unnecessarily sent National Guard and marines, which have only inflamed peaceful protest, and they have thrown down…