Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
Alex Padilla Addresses Forcible Removal From Kristi Noem's Press Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
Follow
6/13/2025
In a video released to social media, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) addressed his forcible removal from DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press briefing.
Category
🗞
News
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
Hi everyone this is Senator Alex Padilla. I want to begin this video by just saying
00:05
thank you to everybody who's reached out to me, to Angela, to my office expressing
00:12
your support because of what's happened today. It means the world to me. I
00:17
certainly have heard your support and I feel your support so thank you. For those
00:21
who may not be aware I was in the federal building in Los Angeles today
00:25
for a scheduled briefing with representatives of Northern Command
00:30
because of what's been happening in Los Angeles and Donald Trump's
00:35
unacceptable escalation of tension here in Los Angeles as the Department of Homeland
00:42
Security has continued to increase the cruelty and the extremism of their
00:47
immigration enforcement operations. While I was waiting for the briefing I learned
00:53
that just down the hall from where I was Secretary Noem from the Department of
00:58
Homeland Security was having a press conference. Now Secretary Noem and the
01:02
Department we have been calling on and we have been sending letters to since the
01:07
beginning of the year requesting more information as to what and why they are
01:11
doing with little to no response and so I thought let me go over there and listen in
01:17
on the press conference. Maybe they're sharing some important information and
01:22
while I did that, escorted over there by a national guardsman and an FBI agent, I just
01:29
heard nothing but increasing political rhetoric. Not once but on multiple
01:35
occasions they're claiming that well they're there in full force in Los Angeles
01:40
because they need to rescue the people of Los Angeles from the governor and from the
01:46
mayor and I just couldn't accept the rhetoric anymore so I had the audacity to
01:52
try to ask a question. I introduced myself. I'm Senator Alex Balia and I have a
01:58
question and it took all of maybe a second for multiple agents to forcibly
02:05
remove me from the room, to pin me on the ground and handcuff me. Now I'm okay for
02:14
people who are wondering how I'm doing. I'm okay. But the big lesson here is if
02:19
they can do that to me, if they're willing to do that to me, a United States
02:22
Senator with a question, doing my job on behalf of the people of California and our
02:28
country, what are they doing to a lot of the folks that are out there when the
02:34
cameras are not on? Not the dangerous violent criminals that they say they're
02:38
targeting. I have no issue with that. But I'm talking about all the otherwise law
02:43
abiding undocumented immigrants who are so key to our economy and so valued in our
02:49
communities. I think of the farm workers out in Oxnard that a couple of days
02:54
ago were subjects of the raids. I think of the people that car washes, the day
02:59
laborers trying to earn a living to help provide for their families. I think of
03:04
cooks and other restaurant workers like my dad for 40 years. That's how he put food
03:08
on the table. But now they're being traumatized and terrorized because of
03:13
the tactics of the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump
03:17
administration. So we're going to continue our job of oversight and to hold Donald
03:24
Trump accountable because what we've seen here cannot be normalized. It is not
03:29
normal and we shouldn't act normal. For folks who are inspired to continue to
03:35
speak up, to demonstrate, to march, to protest, please peacefully protest because
03:41
you don't want to give Donald Trump what he wants. He wants us to be quiet. He wants
03:44
us to look away and we're not going to let him.
Recommended
0:46
|
Up next
Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed From DHS Sec. Kristi Noem Press Conference
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
0:45
Kristi Noem Speaks To Reporters After Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed From Her Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
1:07
More Footage Emerges From Alex Padilla's Removal From Sec. Kristi Noem Press Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
11:19
Alex Padilla Speaks To CNN After Being Forcibly Removed From Noem's Press Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/13/2025
5:30
Alex Padilla Speaks Out After Being Removed From Sec. Kristi Noem's Press Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
4:34
Mark Kelly Responds To Removal Of Alex Padilla From Kristi Noem's Press Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
5:32
Alex Padilla Recounts What He Was Thinking As He Was Handcuffed And Escorted Out Of Noem's Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/18/2025
30:51
Alex Padilla, Senate Democratic Leaders Decry Treatment At Kristi Noem's Press Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/17/2025
4:26
'Inconceivable That Kristi Noem Did Not Know Who Senator Alex Padilla Is': Democratic Lawmaker
Forbes Breaking News
6/16/2025
3:44
Brian Schatz Sends Clear Warning About Alex Padilla’s Removal From DHS Briefing: ’The Stuff Of Dictatorships’
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
2:55
Alex Padilla Says He Has 'Serious Questions' For DHS Sec. Noem After Removal From Press Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/15/2025
4:47
Hakeem Jeffries Calls 'Manhandling Of Senator Alex Padilla' A 'Complete And Total Disgrace'
Forbes Breaking News
6/13/2025
3:55
‘An Assault On The Rule Of Law’: Chris Murphy Responds To Padilla Being Removed From Noem’s DHS Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
25:58
Democrats And Republicans React To Alex Padilla Being Forcibly Removed From Noem's Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/13/2025
3:42
Mike Johnson Calls For The Censure Of Alex Padilla Following Incident With Sec. Kristi Noem
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
1:20
Nancy Pelosi Calls Out 'Thugs Who Manhandled' Alex Padilla At Sec. Kristi Noem Press Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
5:46
JUST IN: Alex Padilla Recounts His Removal From DHS Sec. Noem's Press Briefing By Law Enforcement
Forbes Breaking News
6/15/2025
0:52
'What You See In Totalitarian Regimes': Chuck Schumer Torches DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Over Alex Padilla Arrest
Forbes Breaking News
6/17/2025
0:38
Sen. Alex Padilla removed during press conference with Kristi Noem on LA protests
Diario As
6/12/2025
15:52
Chris Murphy Sends Clear Warning About Alex Padilla’s Forced Removal From A DHS Briefing
Forbes Breaking News
6/16/2025
4:06
Pete Aguilar Calls On Speaker Johnson, John Thune To Provide Answers Following Alex Padilla Incident
Forbes Breaking News
6/13/2025
34:10
Watch The Full Press Briefing With Sec. Kristi Noem That Senator Alex Padilla Was Dragged Out Of
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
1:04
House Democrats Yell At Speaker Mike Johnson Over His Remarks About Alex Padilla Incident
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025
4:54
'This Is A Horrifying Moment': Warren Reacts To Alex Padilla's Removal From Sec. Noem Presser
Forbes Breaking News
6/13/2025
6:01
This Is How GOP Senators Reacted To Video Of Padilla Being Removed From Briefing: Blunt Rochester
Forbes Breaking News
6/12/2025