LOS ANGELES –  Sau một tuần chính quyền Trump leo thang căng thẳng tại Los Angeles về nỗ lực giam giữ hàng loạt của ICE, Thượng nghị sĩ Hoa Kỳ Alex Padilla từ California đã bị trục xuất và giam giữ tại một cuộc họp báo của DHS tại tiểu bang này. 

Tuyên bố của Chủ tịch kiêm Tổng giám đốc điều hành của Common Cause, Virginia Kase Solomon: 

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.

This is a moment where every American needs to make a clear choice: 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.