Senator Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed and handcuffed after interrupting a press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, in an episode that deepened partisan tensions over the Trump Administration’s expanded immigration enforcement efforts in Los Angeles.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem commented on the Los Angeles protests in a June 8 interview with CBS News.

Noem blamed Sen. Padilla for the stunning confrontation in which he was forcibly ejected by Secret Service and FBI personnel from her press conference.

News coverage of the immigration raids and protests in Southern California has transfixed Mexico, where reports have heavily sided with the immigrants against U.S. efforts to detain and deport them.

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