The U.S. Elected Officials Who Have Been Arrested or Approached by Authorities While Protesting Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

TIME

Local officials and members of Congress have been handcuffed, slammed to the ground, and detained by law enforcement while objecting to the Trump Administration’s policies in multiple high-profile confrontations as mass deportations are carried out across the country.

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00:00Hands up on your back.

00:01If you let me sit on my hands, go ahead.

00:03I'm asking that you try a judicial.

00:04You have no respect.

00:06Sir, sir, hands up, hands up.

00:10I'm Senator Alex Padilla.

00:12I have questions for the secretary.

00:15Hands up on your back.

00:16If you let me sit on my hands, go ahead.

00:18I'm going to be on my back.

00:18All right, all right, all right.

00:19I'm going to have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens.

00:25I'm not obstructing.

00:27I'm standing right here in the hallway.

00:28I asked to see the judicial warrant by asking that you try a judicial warrant.

00:34You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens.

00:38You have no respect.

00:39You are safe.

00:43Mr. Mayor, anyone that is not the Congresswoman.

00:46He's the mayor, let him in.

00:51You can't arrest U.S. citizens.

00:53Don't touch us.

00:54Don't touch us.

00:56Don't touch us.

00:57Don't touch us.

00:58No, no, no.

01:00Don't touch us.

01:01This is not right.

01:03Are you going to take your money?

01:05No, no, no, no.

01:07Hey, don't use your hands.

01:08They're out.

01:08Stand up, fight back.

01:10Stand up, fight back.

01:12What do we do when immigrants are under attack?

01:14Stand up, fight back.

01:15Leave without Latinos and immigrants in this nation's history.

01:20We need to attend.

01:22Fight what's unique.

01:25Hands up!

01:26Our freedom!

01:27Hands up!

01:28Our rights!

01:29Hands up!

01:30Our judges!

01:30Hands up!

01:31Our class!

01:32Hands up!

01:33Hands up!

01:34Our class!

01:35Hands up!

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