Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Democrats are fundraising off of his removal from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference on Thursday.

Padilla, along with fellow Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and the Democratic National Committee, blasted out fundraising emails on Friday citing the incident.

“If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they do to farm workers, day laborers, cooks, and the other nonviolent immigrants they are targeting in California and across the country,” Padilla’s fundraising note read, echoing his remarks from Thursday following the incident.

Schiff touted Padilla as “one of the most decent people I know” in his fundraising appeal, while the DNC warned the........

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