Alex Padilla Appears To Choke Up While Talking About JD Vance Calling Him ‘Jose’

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Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla got emotional on Saturday during a segment on MSNBC when talking about Vice President JD Vance calling him “Jose.”

Padilla said that this showed how “petty and unserious” President Donald Trump’s administration really is. He also criticized the vice president for not speaking with families and employers affected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in California.

“He knows my name, look, sadly it’s just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is. He’s the vice president of The United States, you’d think he’d take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously. You know, you’d think maybe he’d take a moment to talk to some of the families who have been impacted — have been terrorized — to feel what’s really going on on the ground,” Padilla said Saturday during the segment.

“You saw him shaking hands with marines, but did he really listen to the marines? Because we have…report after report of the marines, certainly the marines themselves that don’t want to be there. That’s not why they enlisted, or if not the migrant families, how about the employers, who I know are speaking up because they’re concerned about their workforce,” he went on to say.

On Friday Vance was asked during a press conference about the situation with Senator Padilla being detained by security during a press briefing with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. (RELATED: Democrat Theater Kid Learns He’s Not Above The Law)

“Well I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question, but unfortunately I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theatre and that’s all it is. You know I think everybody realizes that’s what this is, it’s pure political theatre,” Vance said during the press conference.

Taylor Van Kirk, a spokesperson for the vice president, told CNN that “he must have mixed up two people who have broken the law.”

In 2007, a man named Jose Padilla was found guilty of supporting Islamic terrorism overseas. He was also a former gang member from Chicago, the outlet noted.

Other Democratic politicians were also outraged by the vice president mixing the two up.

“JD Vance served with Alex Padilla in the United States Senate. Calling him ‘Jose Padilla’ is not an accident,” Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in an X post on Friday.

“We got a lot of important work to do, but this is how the vice president chooses to act and that says a lot,” Padilla finished the segment by saying.