"We are a democracy, but we can lose that democracy," a mournful Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) said today at the Capital mere minutes after Senator Alex Padilla was stunningly dragged out of a press conference in West LA by Sec.

California Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on Thursday and placed in handcuffs.

Marines are now on duty in Los Angeles for the first time.

The handcuffing of Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) raises the stakes for future clashes between Democrats and the administration as acts of protest have been met with swift law enforcement action. Democrats have vowed to continue their pressure campaign on the administration over its immigration policies,

Lawmakers tell Fox News Digital their thoughts after Sen. Alex Padilla got thrown out of a Department of Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles for interrupting on Thursday.

“Sen. Padilla is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform congressional oversight of the federal government’s operations in Los Angeles and across California,” Padilla’s office said in ...