LOS ANGELES –  ICE의 대량 구금 노력에 대해 로스앤젤레스에서 트럼프 행정부가 일주일간 공격적으로 입장을 확대한 후, 캘리포니아 출신의 미국 상원의원 알렉스 파딜라는 해당 주에서 열린 DHS 기자 회견에서 강제로 끌려나와 구금되었습니다. 

Common Cause 사장 겸 CEO, Virginia Kase Solomón의 성명: 

This is not law and order — this is tyranny. If they can treat a sitting United States Senator like this, imagine the brute force that can be used on any one of us. 

Americans have a right to demand answers from our government, especially after that government egregiously weaponized the military against California citizens exercising their constitutional rights. But Donald Trump’s administration just handcuffed a sitting U.S. Senator for simply asking a question.

이것은 모든 미국인이 명확한 선택을 해야 하는 순간입니다. do we want to be a nation of laws, or do we want to be governed by the whims of one power-hungry man? 

This, along with the recent escalation in Los Angeles, is a hostile takeover and an aggressive overextension of power. This is an attempt to silence anyone who so much as questions this administration. 

Common Cause members refuse to be silent. We will speak the truth and demand answers until our government is accountable to its citizens, not the whims of an aspiring dictator. This is our country, and it belongs to us.