California Senator Alex Padilla tried to ask a question at Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in LA — only to be forcibly removed from the room, pushed to the floor, and handcuffed.
"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 throughout the country,” Sen. Padilla said.
Members of Congress and people across the country are calling for Secretary Noem — who is implementing the worst of Trump’s attacks on immigrants and our democracy — to resign.
Trump and his cronies have had immigrant students thrown to the ground and abducted for speaking freely.
They’ve had U.S. citizens thrown to the ground and jailed for speaking freely.
Today they threw a U.S. Senator to the ground and handcuffed him for speaking freely.
As Jews, we’ve seen this before — it’s why many of us came to a nation that defends free speech, not arrests, cages and deports you for it. That’s why we’re taking action now.
Add your name to the Jewish petition to amplify the call: Kristi Noem, resign now.