Alex Padilla

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.

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.

If that is what the administration is willing to do to a United States senator for having the authority to simply ask a question, imagine what they'll do to any American who dares to speak up.

You've seen the video. I was pushed and pulled. Struggled to maintain my balance. I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest.

it is important to me for this body to know that over the last 2 weeks in Los Angeles, my hometown, we are seeing masked Federal agents in tactical gear ordered into our communities. We have seen the disturbing pattern of increasingly…

Are we truly prepared to live in a country where the president can deploy the armed forces to decide which duly elected governors and mayors can lead our constituents?

Let that fundamentally un-American mission statement sink in.

I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest, and I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway.

Sen. Alex Padilla called Trump a 'tyrant'.

It's at least a baby step. Let's hope there's more to follow.

They deserve better.

I had the audacity to try to ask a question as a senator of a Cabinet secretary

If that's how this administration responds to the senator with a question, ... that cruel, disrespectful treatment of so many people who deserve much better

don't just imagine what they're capable of, but what they are doing when the cameras are not there

I wanted to ask about their justification for the federalization of the National Guard, ... not only not necessary, but counterproductive

There's got to be a better way.

Of course, she had no data, had no answer

When I heard the secretary, not for the first time in that press conference, talk about the needing to liberate the people of Los Angeles from their duly elected mayor and governor, it was at that moment that I chose to try to ask a…

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…

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

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

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…

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