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Alex Padilla Condemns Trump's Actions Amid Los Angeles ICE Raids

Published | Video Starts at 01:42

He turns to scapegoating immigrants. And he decided that this was the time to launch indiscriminate ICE raids throughout the Los Angeles region. Clearly not just targeting criminals, but so many others. ICE raids in workplaces in an attempt to manufacture a crisis. Colleagues. For the first time since 1965, the president federalized the National Guard without the governor's approval, without the request of the governor, in order to create chaos, in order … (01:42–01:49)

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Asserts that ICE raids were conducted to create a crisis.

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