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Stephen Colbert told Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., that he hopes the senator is successful in getting citizenship for illegal immigrants, in spite of the "brutality and cruelty" of President Donald Trump ’s administration.

Padilla, who was detained in June after rushing a press conference with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, said that he introduced a bill called "updating the registry" to give illegal immigrants citizenship on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" on Thursday.

"What tends to get lost in the conversation are the millions of people who not just are here in the United States, who have been here in the United States for years if not decades, paying taxes, raising families, ot

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