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Dee's avatar

Thank-you Senator Padilla for your ongoing support & fight for those who are unable to live their lives without constant fear. I pray that all these illegal actions by the Trump administration will be fought in the court room & the immigrants who just want a simple life here in America ..WIN 💞

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Roberta Kosse's avatar

Keep going! You are in the right side of history. Get more of you Senate colleagues to speak out!!!!

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Annehanrahan's avatar

Senator Padilla is a hero and I believe that what he does and how he speaks out is turning the tide - polls show that people are yirmong against these illegal actions.

Another thing - there are around 10,000 illegal Irish immigrants in the U.S. Will ICE start rounding them up? LOL.

Many Irish americans are descendants of illegal immigrants. My own great grandfather was basically an illegal immigrant. He lied - told them he had a job in Montana. In the copper mines. Somehow he ended up in Boston where he met my great grandmother - also an Irish immigrant.

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Dominick Issi's avatar

I see where "The People" are now interdicting with ICE coming into their neighborhood and city streets. THAT is what it's going to take. Of course, the R's have given these Gestapo $130B to do their work ... and NOT taking ANY initiative to scrutinize their records for past criminal activities.

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LIsa Reiss's avatar

Thank you Senator Padilla, I wish more of your senate colleagues were standing either you on this assault on the due process rights of the immigrants in our community. Thank you for taking the risk so few in our govt r willing to take. One of your CA constituents, Sunnyvale CA

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

Incredible Critical Emergency

(after watching a video of events in a police officer's residence)

"Open up the door.."

A voice calls from outside

"Open the door immediately

There's nowhere you can hide."

Answer, "Who is out there?"

You respond with a yell

Too many crazies today

And how are you to tell?

Bright sun floods the entrance

As the door is hammered in, showing

Men with guns and face masks Of doubtful origin

"Face down on the floor

Hands behind your back"

They"re looking for a terrorist

Probably brown or black

"Estefan E Gomez."

They swear he's hiding here

After clearing every room

They can't made him appear

Then huddled on the front lawn

And who would ever guess?

Across the street someone yells

"We're at the wrong address!"

One more "ICEing" a home

An extra legal offense

Lack of organization

And intelligence

Lack of all but money

And lack of common sense

Across the street someone yells

"We're at the wrong address!"

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LIsa Reiss's avatar

Brilliant piece of art.

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nancy moynihan's avatar

On a contrarian view; It is all meaningless noise if not in a court of law. There is NO other protection or pushback that will have any impact on their agenda (Project 2025) short of court orders which will be appealed all the way to SCOTUS which is all in for trump. I guess it encourages someone but people need to get real with how much damage is already done and continues on a daily basis. MAGATS did this and continue to support it all.

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BluPeople Forever's avatar

WHEN TRUMP FASCIST REGIME Gone🙋‍♀️….. take YEARS TO UNDO THE FASCISTS WRONG❗️❗️❗️

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Aria White's avatar

I agree with you, but I still encourage everyone to stand up for justice use their voice and written words to speak the truth, even if it does not win in the highest court in our nation SCOTUS, because it has become a majority conservative that keeps siding with Trump and weakening the laws with twisted interpretations. Remember history showed us that resistance was finally able to win WWII and defeat Hitler and his Nazi and Gestapo followers.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

You’re correct this the kind of leadership America 🇺🇸 needs.

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Helen Igou's avatar

I have two grandchildren who ate biracial. My grandson is a college graduate, works for Boeing and travels a lot for work. My granddaughter is a college junior about two hours away from home. I worry about them constantly. They could be picked up ANF held so easily because of the racial profiling that is happening so frequently and without reasoning. What is happening now is an abomination. And we have the nerve to blast other countries about their civil rights violations? Look in the mirror!

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Aria White's avatar

Thank you Senator Padilla for your ongoing courage and standing up for the people who ICE is wrongly targeting without any warrant or showing any sort of identification to show that they are anything other than thugs kidnapping innocent citizens off the streets. It reminds us of the “brown shirts” in the 1920’s and 1930’s in Germany as Hitler gathered his strength. Keep on going forward against the evil.

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Debra Seitz's avatar

I wish you can slam them all in prison

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Gerry Michl's avatar

He’s my hero. Great Man🥰

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Emily Rosenmeier's avatar

Excellent progress, now arrest these lawbreakers!

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BluPeople Forever's avatar

✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

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BluPeople Forever's avatar

Playing the RACE CARD … is their MAIN objective. Period

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Kathleen Pfeiffer's avatar

Thank you Senator Padilla for speaking out for wrongs by 47.

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GW B's avatar
2dEdited

Thank you for this article. The American people can be more aware, or not, but the American people are not our local law enforcement solution. This is where the people our tax dollars go to that we hire to enforce our laws (police), need urgent training in differentiating interfering with federal officers from clear violations of laws in our communities by rogue actors that are, or are impersonating federal officers. We need to start seeing some arrests to draw some lines vs blatantly obvious abuses.

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