"I urge all people who don’t work for ICE to understand they do not need to grant any requests from ICE (unless ICE has a warrant)."
"He knows my name. He's the vice president of the United States. You'd think he'd take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously."
"If you want to talk about political theater, let's start with the thousands of troops that your administration is using as props in Los Angeles."
"The President is not a king and is not above the law."
"The court rightly rejected Trump's claim that he can do whatever he wants with the National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court."
"It’s just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is."
"This is now defining for the Democratic Party."
"A RED LINE has been crossed. Trump is prosecuting his political enemies in Congress. This is just the beginning."
"The President is not a king and is not above the law. We will press forward with our challenge to President Trump’s authoritarian use of U.S. military soldiers against citizens."
"Body blow to our economy."
"Don’t come.… If you do, you will be turned back."
"What in the world does this mean Sen. Schumer?"
"If that’s what they’ll do to a United States Senator for having the audacity to simply ask a question, imagine what they’ll do to any American who dares to speak up."
"The deployment is a chaotic escalation."
"Padilla recounts 'being handcuffed just for trying to ask a question'"
"The law doesn’t apply to us, and we don’t answer to you."
"Donald Trump wants a spectacle not just to distract from his failed policies, but to justify his undemocratic crackdowns and his authoritarian power grabs."
"This isn’t a new deployment — it’s the same group of soldiers who have been diverted from critical wildfire work and work at the border, now twiddling their thumbs for Donald Trump’s political theater..."
