Is America Sliding Inexorably Towards Its Breakup?
The domestic situation in America continues to spiral out of control, Robert Bridge writes.
In recent days, global attention has been focused on the explosive events in the Middle East and Ukraine, and that helps people to forget about the domestic situation in America that continues to spiral out of control.
Evidence that the American people are slowly starting to awaken from a deep stupor known as ‘the American Dream’ began in earnest on June 12 as Democratic Senator for California Alex Padilla stormed a speaking event by the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and was quickly arrested by federal agents.
Padilla cut off Noem as she was delivering a statement in the Los Angeles FBI headquarters regarding the Trump administration’s response to the protests in that city against the DHS and its immigration-enforcement campaign.
Padilla was abruptly ejected from the room, forced to the ground by police officers and placed in handcuffs during the rapidly unfolding situation.
The incident came amid a particularly hostile atmosphere in Los Angeles, which had been hammered with protests against President Donald Trump’s highly divisive federal immigration ICE raids. While the senator was not arrested, his ejection from the hall by security guards follows the arrests of other public officials, who the administration has accused of interfering with its enforcement of immigration laws.
“I was there peacefully,” Padilla said in his first public comments shortly following the incident. “At one point I had a question, and so I began to ask a question. I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground, and I was ha
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