Keeping up the demands “is a good way for the senators to show their Democratic constituents they are standing up to Trump. So this is potentially effective electoral politics,” said Christian Grose, academic director at the University of Southern California’s Schwarzenegger Institute.

The request, sent Wednesday from California Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, raised concerns about the treatment of the detainees, citing a letter from an unnamed prison employee who described conditions at the federal lockup in Los Angeles ...

Activists are planning to protest Saturday at the former Federal Correctional Institution Dublin against the Trump administration’s possible plan to house immigrant detainees there. The All Out Against ICE protest of U.

Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) urged the Department of the

Two U.S. lawmakers have asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold an "urgent" hearing about the Trump administration's decision to hold detained migrants — many of whom are seeking asylum

The budgets are setting up a process that would probably mean big cuts in social programs, notably Medicaid, called Medi-Cal in California. The Senate budget Friday did not deal with most domestic programs, but Republicans say they don’t want to increase federal deficits and they do want lower taxes, so they’ll need to find reductions.

California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff are demanding. And demanding and demanding. Since President Donald Trump took office Jan. 20, they have sent a blizzard of letters and issued ...

Alex Padilla, D-Calif, voted against the Republican ... Padilla is a member of the Senate Budget Committee. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had the same view of the budget, and tried to amend it ...