Alex Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party’s approach to immigration. The California senator is pressing his case in face-to-face moments with President Joe Biden, in regular calls with top White House staff and sometimes in outspoken criticism.
FILE - Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., speaks to members of the media in Washington, April 25, 2022. Cardenas and Rep. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., who have known each other since their earliest days in Los Angeles politics, now form a political odd couple while away from their families in California . “He’s is the kind of person who steps in and steps up, and, you know, he’s tactical about it,” Cardenas. FILE - Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks during a hearing on April 20, 2023, in Washington.
The senator has tried to anchor his fellow Democrats to that stance even as the politics of immigration grow increasingly toxic. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has said immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally areat times in both the policies and language he is willing to use as illegal border crossings become a vulnerability for his reelection bid.
And that night, Cárdenas said, their conversation turned to how they wanted politicians to avoid labeling migrants as “illegals” because it deprived them of dignity.“He’s is the kind of person who steps in and steps up, and, you know, he’s tactical about it,” Cárdenas said. It’s been a quick ascent for Padilla, who is just beginning his fourth year in Congress, and comes as little surprise to those who have known him since his days in California politics.
But he conceded that he could be proven wrong: “If there is any one person in Washington that could make that deal happen, it would be Alex Padilla.”When he graduated in 1994 with an engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it was a dream fulfilled for his parents — his father a short order cook and his mother a house cleaner.
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