"We are a democracy, but we can lose that democracy," a mournful Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) said today at the Capital mere minutes after Senator Alex Padilla was stunningly dragged out of a press conference in West LA by Sec.

Fallout continues after days of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and protests across the Los Angeles area.

He later met with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem.

The handcuffing of Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) raises the stakes for future clashes between Democrats and the administration as acts of protest have been met with swift law enforcement action. Democrats have vowed to continue their pressure campaign on the administration over its immigration policies,

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called the troop deployment a “serious breach of state sovereignty” and a power grab by Trump, and he has gone to court to stop it.