Sabrina Medina, center, with her family. Ms. Medina said federal agents showed up on Thursday morning at her home in Huntington Park, Calif., looking for her husband. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, accompanied the agents, Ms. Medina said.
Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was shoved out of a room and handcuffed after he tried to question Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, during a news conference.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, speaking at a news conference in West Los Angeles. Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was forcibly removed from the event after trying to ask her questions.
Elected officials, as well as social media influencers, had wide-ranging opinions of the governor’s prime time address warning that democracy is in danger.
California liberals welcomed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s speech condemning President Trump, but some remained skeptical of the governor. Republicans, meanwhile, saw his address as opportunistic and blamed him for the state’s turmoil.
Rallies across the country have been held in support of David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union California, who was briefly hospitalized with a head injury after his arrest.
Immigrants from the targeted countries said the ban would upend their lives. “I don’t understand why the president has to target us nonstop,” one Haitian asylum seeker said.
Construction on a section of the California high-speed rail project in Fresno, Calif., in 2022. The rail project, which was originally envisioned to run from Los Angeles to San Francisco, remains unfinished.
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