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MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace chuckled Thursday afternoon at the idea Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) might say something productive about a brouhaha in which one of his members was thrown out of a news conference and handcuffed despite identifying himself as a senator.

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) went to a press conference for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, where he said he had a question. He was shoved by law enforcement out the door, pushed face down on the carpet by three officers, and handcuffed. He wasn't arrested or charged with a crime.

Arab-American voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump are outraged that the president signed off on a new travel ban to the United States that includes much of the Middle East, reported ABC News this week.

Countries on the ban list include Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Trump officials describe it as necessary to “protect [our] citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”

A former Republican voter is slamming the GOP, claiming “the party left me” and asserting they have “left behind the values” which once defined the party.

Paolina Milana wrote in a new column in The Guardian that she was a "proud Republican" for most of her life.

A longtime Republican political strategist and publisher of The Bulwark is issuing a warning to the senators in her party that they need to be careful where they stand on their colleague, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), being manhandled and handcuffed at a news conference when he tried to ask a question.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed in an official statement from the DHS X account that Padilla didn't identify himself as a Senator at the event. She repeated the comment when speaking to Fox News about it later.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus came to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to speak about the incident with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), where he was manhandled and handcuffed by the FBI for trying to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question during her news conference.

Washington Post congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor posted on X that Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) relayed that Capitol Police were "blocking Speaker Johnson’s office door, preventing Congressional Hispanic Caucus lawmakers from trying to meet with him."

The Department of Homeland Security was caught using a meme created by an antisemitic white nationalist activist to promote their mass deportation efforts, journalist Zaid Jilani reported for The American Saga — and when confronted over it, a senior DHS official was completely unapologetic.

This is emerging on the same day that Trump's DHS faces a firestorm of controversy for having Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) tackled and handcuffed when he tried to ask DHS Secretary Kristi Noem about the administration's military occupation of Los Angeles during a news conference.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) posted a video of lawmakers marching their way through the U.S. Capitol to demand accountability from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) after a Democratic senator was recorded Thursday afternoon being tackled by federal agents.

"We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal," Frost wrote on Bluesky.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced backlash from members of Congress after he accused Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) of "storming" Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference.

"Did federal agents go too far in the way they treated Senator Padilla today?" Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram asked the speaker.

House Speaker Mike Johnson attacked Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) for interrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference on Thursday.

Padilla identified himself as a U.S. senator and said, "I have a question for the secretary." He was forcibly removed by marked and unmarked FBI agents, shoved face-down on the ground by three officers, and handcuffed.

A Democratic U.S. Senator is coming after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over "deceptive" posts on social media.

The department came under fire Thursday following an incident in which Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed from a news conference. In the wake of the news conference, DHS issued a statement falsely claiming that Padilla didn't identify himself.

The Department of Homeland Security alleged in a post on X that Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was detained because he attended the event "without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on." It's something one U.S. Senator called a "lie."

Video shows Padilla being grabbed by FBI officers, where he says, "I'm U.S. Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary."

CNN analyst and political director David Chalian was stupefied by video of federal agents manhandling and handcuffing Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) after he tried to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question during a news conference about the federal intervention of the Trump administration against anti-deportation protesters in California.

Homeland Security has defended their actions by claiming that Padilla behaved unprofessionally and failed to identify himself as a member of Congress. However, some observers note that he did just that.