Alex Padilla
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56 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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So last week, when I heard something so blatantly un-American from the Secretary of Homeland Security, a cabinet official, of course I was compelled, both as a senator and as an American, to speak up.
But before I could even get out my question, I was physically and aggressively forced out of the room.
Even as I repeatedly announced I was a United States Senator, and I had a question for the Secretary.
And even as the National Guardsmen and the FBI agent who served as my escorts and brought me into that press briefing room stood by, silently, knowing full well who I was.
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.
And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway, repeatedly asking, why am I being detained?
Not once did they tell me why.
I pray you never have a moment like this.
But I will tell you, in that moment, a lot of questions came to my mind.
First of all, where are they taking me?
Because I know I'm not just being escorted out of the building.
Am I being arrested here?
And what will a city already on edge from being militarized think when they see their United States Senator being handcuffed just for trying to ask a question?
And what will my wife think?
What will our boys think?
It could be a year, it could be within a few months.
Iran is so dangerous, weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.
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