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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

But this Administration is choosing to turn its back on the people that this program was meant to help and protect, while hurting our country in the process.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

Most Americans recognize how much TPS holders and immigrants, more broadly, contribute to our country. The economic, social, and cultural benefits they’ve provided as they’ve worked and lived among us for years, developing strong roots in…

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

Thanks to the president’s hostility towards immigrants, TPS holders from countries in turmoil, many of whom have lived in the United States for years, if not decades, are now in danger, at the mercy of this cruel Administration.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

The Trump Administration itself is warning Americans not to travel to Haiti because of how unsafe it is. Yet the same Administration wants to force over 300,000 Haitian nationals, who until very recently held Temporary Protected Status, to…

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Water Rights Settlement Act would ratify this agreement.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

All parties reached a comprehensive agreement last May to secure the Tribe’s federally reserved water rights and to promote the Tribe’s sovereign authority over its water resources and trust lands.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

For generations, the Pechanga Band of Indians has been a dedicated steward of land and water resources in the Temecula Valley.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

Once upon a time, we had a true Department of Justice and a Civil Rights Division that we could sometimes turn to as an alternative. That no longer carries any credibility. So finding other mechanisms for credible, independent…

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

As awful as this Administration’s anti-immigrant mass detention and deportation agenda is, it still has a legal responsibility to ensure the people in detention are treated humanely.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

Their lives have meaning and value, and they retain the fundamental human right, even in custody, as the law clearly says, they deserve access to basic things like food, drinking water, and lifesaving medical care.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

Another is a ruling from District Court Judge Sykes earlier this month requiring federal immigration officials to provide clean drinking water and adequate medical care for those held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

We’re reminded by the findings of a court-appointed monitor that the California City Detention Center has failed to comply with a judge’s order to provide adequate healthcare.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

The American people deserve better than that. We owe them a government where public office is a public trust, not a private enterprise.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

If we care about preserving our democracy for future generations, corruption must not just be called out; it must be met with action.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

Corruption is his governing philosophy, and it doesn’t–it’s not just him and his family.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jul 31, 2026

Trump has turned the presidency into the most profitable scam of his life, and Republicans have helped him cash every check.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

When a president uses the office for personal profit, that is not ‘just the way it is,’ despite what Trump wants you to believe.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

Chairman, really, this is a question for you. And it’s a question to try to figure out how do we get a good answer on this.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

The Wuhan Institute of Virology… being, as was noted by many people, the only lab in the world that was doing research like this that had a lower standard of actually their security standards there than many other labs around the world.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

If we’re going to fund research and cooperate with you, we’ve got to have certain things from you.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

It’s not just our cooperation with Chinese scientists. It’s our acknowledgment that China covered up their data, wouldn’t allow our scientists to be able to come in.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

On May 6th, 2020 you wrote, at that time, ‘I had a conversation with Robert Redfield’... ‘This is terrible and needs to be addressed, since on that basis alone there would be far, far more excess deaths from measles among children than…

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

Countless families, including my own, watched a loved one die behind glass or through a screen because we couldn’t get access to them.

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