First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down Alex Padilla

Thursday, even before federal agents in Los Angeles, things looked tense USA downloaded Alex Padilla.

We had sailors A little educated about domestic crowded controlI’m setting off to do crowded control. We had ice raids Sweeping a man from a church. Or maybe ice – armed and masked agents Refused to say where they were.

But then the situation went further south, to be honest, at least I thought it would last until Monday.

Internal Security Secretary Kristi Noem He had cosplay in the city to become an ice agent. You know you like to dress. Padilla, who was in the same building to meet a general, went to a news conference he hosted and tried to ask him a question.

Bad idea.

The federal agents took him out of the room, pushed him on his knees, and handcuffed him. Finally, he went face to face. The FBI confirmed that my colleagues were not arrested, but this is a little comfort.

Although the officers did not know that they were a US senator when they started to go after Padilla, they certainly did the clamps sticking.

Padilla heard that he said, “Hands are closed, hands. I. Alex Padilla.”

Hands continued.

Shortly after the video of this scary section, Gov. Gavin Newsom Published on X“Imagine what to do if they can handcuffs a US senator to ask a question.”

Actually.

After returning to his feet, the only thing he was trying to do was to get some information because his questions remained unanswered so far.

“I was peaceful,” he said to journalists. “At some point, I had a question and that’s why I started to ask a question. I was forcibly removed from the room. … If the Ministry of Internal Security reacts to a senator with a question in this way, you can only imagine what they are doing in Los Angeles community and workers around the country.”

It’s hard not to think about the poem of Martin Niemöller, “They came first,” At times like this. Niemöller, a priest, Actually Nazi was wrong Until the machine enters a concentration camp to open it and oppose Hitler’s rules in churches.

After the news conference, Noem offered something sad.

“I wish I would like to tell us who he was and who wanted to talk,” he said to the journalists. “His approach, you know, it was something I didn’t think was appropriate, but the conversation was great and we will continue to communicate.”

It was great! Send seafarers!

When asked why he ordered the abolition of the Padilla, Noem was postponed to law enforcement officers.

Im I will let law enforcement officers talk about how this situation is handled, but I will say that people should define themselves before they start the lung during the press conference. ”

“Lung.”

Being brown in America begins to feel like a crime. The new black man, who is alleged to be the brown man’s lung, is as frightening as much as any reaction is right.

Noem was already passing by Maga Land, shortly after making this accusation. Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson quickly accused Padilla when asked about the Sordid incident. Johnson suggested that the Senate should censor the Padilla because “it needs to be sent.”

Then he claimed that we could not have “Senators who charge in cabinet secretaries”Of course we didn’t. But the real rarely disturbs Trump or his followers.

Our other California Senator Senator Adam Schiff came to the defense of his colleague by demanding an investigation.

“Everyone who looks at him – everyone – everyone who looks at it will turn your stomach,” he said. “To look at this video and to see what happened, to see what it is.

Political Pundit Mike Madrid pointed out how personal this immigration issue was for Padilla.

Padilla was the son of Mexican immigrants Santos and Lupe Padilla. He entered politics in 1995 because of anti -immigrant Recommendation 187California measures removed people from many public services, including schools. Since then, he has been a champion of immigrant communities.

Madrid wrote, “I know how Alex Padilla is an angry and passionate senator and it has been hard to describe that he has never seen anything like that, Mad said Madrid wrote. “A vivid example of how the Latins feel right now.”

And not only the Latins – all Americans who care about democracy.

We are about to make a debate of about 3,000 hours on whether Padilla deserves what Padilla has received because it was not invited to the press conference.

The right wing will separate the video, seeking that move and saying that Padilla is aggressive. The left will say that he has the right to ask questions, even a duty, because he is an elected representative, even those who have been detained and disappeared, even those who are citizens of US citizens.

I’m going to say I don’t care if you are a pro -Trump or a padilla.

Our constitution should be a terrible call to wake up to watch a US senator who is forced to ask questions about the necessary process, about civil rights, about civil rights.

It turns out to be true: after coming to the vulnerable ones, they really come for the rest.