Sen. Padilla Handcuffed And Forced Out At DHS Immigration Presser In L.A.; ICE Oversight Concerns Grow

Breitbart reports Sen. Alex Padilla was grabbed, forced out, and handcuffed by officers during a DHS press event in Los Angeles after he tried to question Secretary Kristi Noem. DHS says he failed to comply and did not identify himself; Padilla calls it an overreaction tied to broader concerns about how detainees are treated off-camera. The incident aligns with a recent Los Angeles–area cluster of aggressive DHS/ICE actions and constrained oversight access, including a lawmaker-reported “sanitized” detention tour and a teen’s mistaken detention near a school.