@DHS—I demand to go in to get answers. We need to know why law-abiding asylum seekers are being detained, separated, and treated like criminals. 8/8

This isn’t “just how the system works.” This is a system breaking people. Bureaucracy weaponized against those who complied. 7/8

🚨I’m here with @RepLuzRivas, @RepNormaTorres & @RepLouCorrea at the Roybal Federal Building exercising our Congressional authority to investigate ICE’s inhumane detention of immigrant families—including moms & kids held after routine check-ins. No beds. No food. No water.

We are demanding answers.

DHS is breaking the law by blocking me, @Repluzrivas, @NormaJTorres and @RepLouCorrea from conducting oversight. That’s not a misunderstanding—it’s a violation of federal law.

I’m demanding @Sec_Noem launch an immediate investigation. If her agency won’t follow the law, she needs to answer for it.

We were at the federal detention center in downtown LA. They deployed some type of chemical irritant that made people cough and we had to mask. The people here were mainly attorneys, family of those being detained, and two members of Congress. @NormaJTorres

WHAT'S NEXT? I’m going back tomorrow (Monday) to keep demanding answers under my legal authority. On Friday, I was blocked from entering the Roybal Building to do oversight—even though federal law gives me that right. I’m trying to check in on the condition of women & kids detained. Checking in on labor leader David Huerta. And see why attorneys are being shut out. I’m not going to stop!

Here we are, Monday morning, back at the Roybal Federal Building to check in on the migrant families detained and put in the basement with reportedly inhumane conditions and denied access to attorneys (even still this morning). And to get eyes on my friend & union leader David Huerta after he was tased and arrested for protesting peacefully. Like I said we're not stopping!

WHAT'S NEXT? I’m going back tomorrow (Monday) to keep demanding answers under my legal authority. On Friday, I was blocked from entering the Roybal Building to do oversight—even though federal law gives me that right. I’m trying to check in on the condition of women & kids detained. Checking in on labor leader David Huerta. And see why attorneys are being shut out. I’m not going to stop!

Here we are, Monday morning, back at the Roybal Federal Building to check in on the migrant families detained and put in the basement with reportedly inhumane conditions and denied access to attorneys (even still this morning). And to get eyes on my friend & union leader David Huerta after he was tased and arrested for protesting peacefully. Like I said we're not stopping!

On @CNN this morning talk about Trump’s Big Billionaire Bill that will cut Medicaid to give tax breaks to billionaires, plus what’s happening in LA.

🚨THROWN TO THE GROUND AND ARRESTED: CA @SenAlexPadilla was forcibly removed from a DHS press conference—an elected U.S. Senator who represents the PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA. This isn’t just shocking, it’s a threat to the rule of law and democratic accountability.

Sen. Padilla is conducting oversight over the lawlessness of the Trump and the violations of the #RuleOfLaw. If this can happen to immigrant communities, it can happen to anyone.