A day after federal agents forcibly restrained and handcuffed U.S. Sen Alex Padilla at a Los Angeles news conference, leaders of the country’s two political parties responded in what has become a predictable fashion — with diametrically opposed takes on the incident.

Now the senior U.S. senator from California, Alex Padilla’s career in public service started amid intense fervor over immigration in the early 1990s. Now, it comes full circle.

Democrats and Republicans alike were stunned on Thursday when California Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles. The Context Padilla was removed from Noem's press conference as he shouted that he wanted to ask her questions amid the government's response to ongoing demonstrations in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the area.

The senator is known on Capitol Hill for being kind and nerdy. His forcible removal from a news conference resonated as a call to action among Democrats.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Sen. Alex Padilla of "lunging" at her, justifying officers forcing him to the ground and handcuffing him. It's part of a broader strategy by the Trump administration to stoke fear to justify violence.

Chaotic scenes in which Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was pressed to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents set the political world aflame Thursday. Padilla had come to a news conference being

California Sen. Alex Padilla is getting plenty of mileage out of his scuffle with the Secret Service and federal authorities in Los Angeles Thursday. Padilla’s Senate and campaign X.com

Former CNN host Jim Acosta and Democratic strategist Maria Cardona expressed outrage on Thursday after Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla’s