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Alex Padilla: “Unnecessary and counterproductive to send in the National…”

Featuring: Alex Padilla, Democratic | U.S. Senate from California

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Senator Alex Padilla Discusses Federal Intervention and Immigration Policies in Los Angeles

Published | Video Starts at 01:28

Yeah, well, it's a situation, a crisis, if you're going to use that word that Donald Trump created. Right. The increasingly aggressive tactics and theatrics for this immigration enforcement operations, number one, unnecessarily Unnecessary and counterproductive to send in the National Guard in an unprecedented fashion. Right. Not since 1965 over the position or the request of a governor. And didn't he say during his address to the cadets earlier today that the situation is moving in the right direction, but now he's sending in more Marines. (01:28–01:38)

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