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Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said in an interview that he never thought he would be forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press conference as he tried to ask DHS secretary Kristi Noem a question in June, arguing it should be a "wake-up call."

"Never would I have imagined that that would have happened — that that would be a response to a question, especially to a senator trying to ask a question," he told The New York Times' Lulu Garcia Navarro.

Padilla was handcuffed and forcibly removed from a June press conference Noem had in Los Angeles after he tried to ask a question of the head of Homeland Security, who was speaking about the anti-ICE riots in the city.

The NYT asked Padilla if Noem had ap

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