{"id":192402,"date":"2025-06-13T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=192402"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:07:50","slug":"sen-padilla-on-forcible-removal-from-dhs-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=192402","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Padilla on Forcible Removal from DHS Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA&#8230;The Office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, released the following statement after Padilla was forcibly removed from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem\u2019s press conference while performing Congressional oversight in Los Angeles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-192403\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-701x701.jpg 701w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-1067x1067.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Padilla is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform Congressional oversight of the federal government\u2019s operations in Los Angeles and across California. He was in the federal building to receive a briefing with General Guillot and was listening to Secretary Noem\u2019s press conference. He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed. He is not currently detained, and we are working to get additional information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA&#8230;The Office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, released the following statement after Padilla was forcibly removed from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem\u2019s press conference while performing Congressional oversight in Los Angeles: \u201cSenator Padilla is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/212340029_184414943640826_5877299722976979473_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192404,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192402\/revisions\/192404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}