"If this administration is this afraid of just one senator... imagine what the voices of tens of millions of Americans ...

Sen. Alex Padilla and Democratic colleagues have framed the episode as intimidation by the Trump administration.

Padilla addressed the Senate floor, detailing his forcible removal from a news conference while questioning Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

The California senator's speech came after he was thrown out of a room where DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had been speaking.

In a speech to the Senate on, Sen. Alex Padilla emotionally recalls the moments he was handcuffed and forcibly removed from ...

The California Democrat returned to the Senate floor Tuesday to warn that the Trump administrations response to immigration ...