Alex Padilla of California – as he attempted to question Homeland ... in which Padilla was handcuffed and briefly detained by officers as he aimed to speak out in opposition to Trump administration immigration raids that sparked unrest in Los Angeles ...

On the Daily Beast podcast, Michael Wolff claimed that Trump tried to dismiss the incident by saying that Alex Padilla was not famous. Wolff explained Trump’s rationale saying, “This is just his visceral response: Nobody’s ever heard of him. We can take the blame off the ICE agents because they haven’t heard about this guy.”

The administration of President Donald Trump swiftly sought to downplay a Thursday incident in which Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was roughly pinned to the ground and briefly handcuffed during a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles.

Democrat Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine raged on Friday over Democrat California Sen. Alex Padilla getting thrown out of a press

During her remarks from the Senate floor this week, Senator Maria Cantwell unleashed on the Trump Administration over the abusive detainment of Senator Alex Padilla. Cantwell stated, "They are afraid of Alex Padilla.

A day after federal agents forcibly restrained and handcuffed U.S. Sen Alex Padilla at a Los Angeles news conference, leaders of the country’s two political parties responded in what has become a predictable fashion — with diametrically opposed takes on the incident.

During his Friday appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy warned that America has reached "a point of no return," following California Senator Alex Padilla's forceful removal from a Thursday press conference with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

Hours after senior U.S. Senator Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from a press briefing with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, House Democrats roamed the Capitol seeking an audience with GOP leadership.