WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, slammed Republicans' lies about sanctuary city policies during a Constitution Subcommittee hearing. He denounced Republicans for deflecting from the Trump Administration's failure to adhere to their promise to target the "worst of the worst" individuals, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and agents indiscriminately sweep up people with no violent criminal history (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arrests-violent-criminal-records-trump-first-year/).

Padilla stressed that despite Republicans' clai...