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I encourage everybody to please peacefully protest – just like I was calmly and peacefully listening in that press conference.

I was there peacefully. At one point I had a question, and so I began to ask a question.

You’re not willing to say you would respect those decisions?

Turns out, chasing hard working people through ranches and farms and snatching women and children off the streets is not good policy.

I’m Sen. Alex Padilla.

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

A shameful and stunning abuse of power.

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 throughout California and throughout the…

These unlawful deployments have already proven to be a deeply inflammatory and unnecessary provocation.

Clearly there's no invasion, there's no rebellion, it's absurd.

Today is a big day for the Constitution of the United States, for our democracy.

The National Guard will be redeployed to what they were doing before Donald Trump commandeered them.

How many Americans in the year 2025 see a vindictive president on a tour of retribution?

California may be first – but it clearly won’t end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next.

He’s acting like a “dictator.”

Federal troops be immediately removed from the city.

Federal troops be immediately removed from the city.

Federal troops be immediately removed from the city.