California Sen. Padilla removed from Noem's news conference
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Now the senior U.S. senator from California, Alex Padilla’s career in public service started amid intense fervor over immigration in the early 1990s. Now, it comes full circle.
The Los Angeles police chief could not put an exact number on how many protesters were expected on Saturday but said at a news conference that his department was “fully prepared.”
Alex Padilla, US Senator from California, is a vocal advocate for mental health reform, with a modest net worth and a long-standing career in public service shaped by his family's immigrant roots.
When the Trump Justice Department took the extraordinary step of arresting a local judge seven weeks ago, plenty feared what it could portend.
Emerging afterward, Padilla said he was removed while demanding answers about the Trump administration’s “increasingly extreme immigration ... their oversight roles by surveying the treatment ...