A growing army of volunteers has mustered at immigration courts during a month-old campaign to detain people showing up for routine hearings.

The incident comes days after police handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., after he was forcibly removed from a press conference that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was holding.

El actual contralor de la ciudad fue arrestado por agentes federales del ICE mientras escoltaba a un inmigrante fuera de la corte