"The Fear and The Terror." With Sen. Alex Padilla
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Bill talks with California Senator Alex Padilla about the significant impacts of the Trump administration's immigration policies on Southern California communities. Padilla discusses the fear and economic repercussions faced by immigrant families and the broader community, addressing issues such as indiscriminate ICE raids, racial profiling, and the failure to prioritize dangerous criminals. Padilla emphasizes the role of immigrants in California's economy and the broader necessity of humane and sensible immigration reform. Also covered are the legal challenges against these immigration actions, the importance of due process, and the political dynamics influencing immigration policy. The conversation also touches on the possible future political ambitions of California figures like Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris.
Bill highlights the work of the Latino Victory Fund, an organization dedicated to building political power in the Latino community. More information at LatinoVictory.org.
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| 1:09.5 | You know, if there's one promise Donald Trump made more than any other promise in 2024, |
| 1:13.7 | it was to launch a mass deportation campaign, |
| 1:19.3 | bigger than the country has ever seen. And that's one promise he seems determined to keep. |
| 1:26.2 | Every day, ice agents are staging raids anywhere brown-skinned people might congregate, Home Depot, |
| 1:28.1 | Catholic churches, farmers fields, |
| 1:33.8 | even city of parks. Routing of suspects who committed no crime, hauling them off to detention centers, denying them the right to counsel, and in many cases deporting them to God knows where, |
| 1:39.8 | often to jails and countries they never heard of. And most of those roundups are taking place in Southern California |
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