The federal government has as a core duty the right and responsibility to enforce immigration law and police the borders. That's what the government is. That's what the federal government is really.So if you contest that, it is like a threat to disunion fundamentally. I mean I think there's a lot at stake and we reached this point because a series of paradoxically weak federal governments allowed sanctuary cities to continue literally for decades. Each one its own form of insurrection against the central go ...

Today, for the very first time since federal troops were sent into Los Angeles, we saw a member of the US Marine Corps detain a civilian outside a federal building in LA. You can see the footage right there on the screen. That's according to Reuters, which obtained this footage you're seeing showing two Marines appearing to handcuff and temporarily detain a young man for walking through a National Guard checkpoint.Now, the man who was detained is reportedly a veteran himself who was just trying to get to th ...

you you were once in command of an infantry platoon um at 29 Palms, which is the base where many of these Marines are being deployed from. What kind of training what should we know about what they do at that base to prepare them if it prepares them for what they're being asked to do here. Good evening, Jen.Thanks for having me on. It does not prepare them for what they are being asked to do right now, which is domestic law enforcement. A job that the LAPD are well trained to do and have the situation fully ...

California Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from and handcuffed at a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Christy Gnome. The escalation is eerily reminiscent of the scene outside that ICE detention facility in New Jersey just last month. That incident resulted this week in the indictment of Congresswoman Lam Monica Mcver by a federal grand jury.The congresswoman is facing three counts of forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers. She says she plans to plead ...

INTERVIEW. JACOB SOBOROFF HAS BEEN COVERING THIS STORY FOR US IS WITH THE SENATOR JACOB. >> ALL RIGHT.THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M JOINED RIGHT NOW BY SENATOR ALEX PADILLA. SENATOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US LIVE ON MSNBC.FIRST QUESTION, HOW ARE YOU. WE ALL WATCHED THE VIDEO. WE SAW YOU TAKEN TO THE FLOOR BY THOSE AGENTS.HOW ARE YOU DOING. >> YEAH. LOOK.I'M OKAY. I'VE BEEN ON THE PHONE OFF AND ON WITH KIDS. RIGHT.BECAUSE MY KIDS WERE TRAVELS FAST IN THIS DAY AND AGE WITH TECHNOLOGY, MAKE SURE THEY'RE OKA ...

Since the beginning of the year, but especially over the course of the last re uh over the course of recent weeks, I several of my colleagues have been asking the the Department of Homeland Security for more information and more answers on their increasingly extreme immigration enforcement actions. And we've gotten little to no information in response to our inquiries. And so I came to the press conference to hear what she had to say to see if I could learn any new additional information.And at one point I ...

Well, good afternoon everybody. Never put your hand on there. Good afternoon everybody.I'm Senator Alex Padilla. Uh you guys have some questions. I'm going to read a brief statement.I will not be taking questions, but allow me to read my statement. Uh I'm here in Los Angeles today. Uh, and I was here in the federal building in the conference room awaiting a scheduled briefing from federal officials as part of my responsibility as a senator to provide oversight and accountability.While I was waiting for the ...

NBC's David Noriega joins us live in Los Angeles. Also with us, NBC News senior homeland security correspondent Julia Aninsley and Jason Hower, former chief of staff for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. David, how have these demonstrations now evolved in the past 24 hours.Bring us up to speed. Well, Anna, the number of protesters has remained in the hundreds over the last couple of days. that is significantly lower than the number when the protest started on Friday and into the weekend.And I would say t ...

Tonight, just hours before a curfew takes effect for a second night in downtown Los Angeles, protesters again taking to the streets. Demonstrations opposing ICE immigration enforcement operations now in their sixth straight day. Organizers mobilizing across social media.How long do you think this is going to go on. Well, the National Guard said they're going to be here for at least 30 days. So, I'd say as long as they're here.Protests overnight in New York, Denver, and Chicago, where a car appears to speed ...

This is a strawberry field in Ventura County, California. I'm in Oxnard. Uh this is one of the beating hearts of the California agricultural economy. California's economy is the fourth largest economy in the world.And the agricultural industry here is is literally worth billions of dollars. There are thousands of farms in Ventura County, tens of thousands of farm workers. And this also happens to be the latest location in a series of immigration enforcement actions by the Trump administration and federal ag ...