California Senator Walks Out of Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Attacking “Radical Left”
Earlier this year, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was handcuffed and removed from a press conference of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He has views on immigration that are not in line with those of the current administration.
Senator Padilla today spoke at Senate Republicans’ subcommittee hearing titled, “ICE Under Fire: The Radical Left’s Crusade Against Immigration Enforcement.” The following is from his office's press release:
"Padilla emphasized that violence against law enforcement is never acceptable, but Republicans’ partisan hearing was an outrageous attempt to deflect from the Administration’s consistent excessive use of force and racial profiling during immigration enforcement actions across the country, while parroting the Administration’s unsubstantiated claims to justify President Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Without any government witnesses to testify or data to back up the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) claims of a large spike in assaults on its officers and agents, Padilla reiterated that the hearing was “not a serious attempt to protect law enforcement” or conduct oversight. Padilla has submitted requests to DHS for months to back up their statements of a “500%,” “1,000%,” and now “8,000%” increase in assaults and death threats against their agents and officers, but DHS has refused to provide the underlying data.
At the same time, Padilla stressed that while DHS claims to be going after “the worst of the worst” violent criminals, over 70 percent of those currently detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody have no criminal record. Yet ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continue violently abusing their power against individuals, including American citizens and hardworking long-term immigrants, in cities throughout the nation.
Video of Padilla’s remarks before walking out of the hearing can be seen here and can be downloaded here."
I found Senator Padilla's comments to be compelling.
