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“I know that you’re all probably thinking, ‘Why the heck is Moms First throwing a fatherhood summit?’” Reshma Saujani, the chief executive and founder of that organization, said to a crowd of fathers, and yes, some mothers, seated in an auditorium. It was a nod to a question that arose on social media when the advocacy group started promoting the event, an afternoon of talks and… Read more »

Watch full interview here LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Amid increasingly strict immigration enforcement, U.S. House of Representative Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., warns that the federal government is inching more and more toward authoritarianism. Rep. Gomez has been on the ground in LA, attempting to gain access to federal detention… Read more »

Democrats expressed outrage after Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference on Thursday in Los Angeles, taken to the ground and handcuffed by law enforcement officers. Noem was speaking to the media about the federal response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in… Read more »

Watch full interview here Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) joins CNN's Sara Sidner to discuss President Trump's actions escalating tensions in LA, the need to get federal troops out of the city, and Republicans' Big Billionaire Bill that would slash Medicaid to pay tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Read more »

"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in Congress includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into the administration’s mass deportation agenda. Republican leaders capitalized Tuesday on the demonstrations in Los Angeles, where people are protesting Trump’s immigration raids at Home… Read more »

"Three Democratic members of Congress from California and two from New York said over the weekend that they were barred from entering federal detention centers in their respective states to check on people who were detained in immigration raids or in protests against the raids. All five members — Representatives Maxine Waters, Jimmy Gomez and Norma Torres of California and… Read more »

"Amidst the ICE activity and protests around the Los Angeles area on Saturday, several Southern California congressional representatives said they tried to enter a federal building downtown where they said immigrant families are being detained. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, said he and several other Democratic House members attempted to visit the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on… Read more »

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) joins MSNBC's The Briefing With Jen Psaki to discuss Day 6 of Trump escalating tensions in LA and peaceful protests spreading across the country amid unlawful ICE raids. Watch the full video here Read more »

Watch full interview here Members of the California National Guard arrived in Los Angeles Sunday morning in response to days of protest against federal immigration raids. On Saturday, President Donald Trump moved to deploy the 2,000 members over the opposition of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, who say the move is inflammatory and unnecessary.… Read more »

"The Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive moves on immigration are pulling Democrats back into a border security debate they had tried to ignore. For months, Democrats scarred by the politics of the issue sought to sidestep President Donald Trump’s immigration wars — focusing instead on the economy, tariffs or, in the case of deportations, due process concerns. But in the… Read more »