San Luis Obispo – The controversial deportation by the Trump administration of Kilmar Abrego Garcia sent the United States rushing into a constitutional crisis, the American senator Adam B. Schiff of hundreds of Californians said on Tuesday during his first city hall in the Senate.
Inside a gymnasium brilliantly lit in a community college in San Luis Obispo, Schiff said that Trump administration had already ignored an order from the United States Supreme Court to “facilitate” the Liberation of Maryland man from El Salvador prison after being wrongly expelled.
The imminent question, said Schiff, is how the country will react if the Trump administration challenges another ordinance of the Supreme Court to temporarily jump deportations under the Extraterrestrial Enemies Act of 1798.
“The reason why this is a constitutional crisis,” said Schiff, a democrat, “is there no clear answer to this question.”
While the public roared approval and drumped their feet on the stands of the gymnasium, Schiff said to the voters to “continue to go down the street to make our point of view known, make our voice heard, to say to the people in power that we look at what they do.”
Co-organized with the representative Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara), the town hall of Schiff has been his first since its enslavement in the Senate.
The event attracted nearly 2,000 RSVP, said Schiff’s office. Hundreds of older and older voters have spread from the Cuesta College performer center in an overflow room in the campus gymnasium.
Normally sleeping affairs, the town halls organized by the Democrats this year have become ventilation sessions for liberal voters fed up by President Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and what they consider to be a lack of action by their elected officials.
The Democrats tried to channel the anger of their voters in action while managing the expectations, explaining that with the Republicans controlling the House of American Representatives, the Senate and the White House, there are few things they can do.
When an voter interviewed Schiff and Carbajal on the imminent threat of cups for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, Schiff has traveled the crowd through the name known as reconciliation, which allows certain bills of expenditure law to pass the Senate controlled by the Republican for a simple majority vote.
The Congress Republicans asked the Committee which supervises Medicaid to reduce $ 880 billion.
Although Trump said that he did not support Medicaid cuts, the program that provides health care to the poor, the non -partisan congress budget office said that reductions of this magnitude would only be possible by admissibility or coverage.
“There are limits to what we can do,” said Schiff about Democratic legislators. “We can delay the calculation using all the tools we have, but we cannot put it back indefinitely.”
The public was much quieter than in the noisiest town halls organized during the first weeks of the Trump administration, where the rage boiled in cry and heckling matches as the Musk government’s efficiency department which reduced federal agencies and departments.
Schiff’s staff chose questions submitted by public members, who have addressed a wide range of subjects, including environmental protection, government corruption, war in Gaza and if the congress can cancel the confirmations of the nominees of the cabinet such as the defense secretary Pete Hegseth.
Several other California legislators, including the representative of the Empire Inland Pete Aguilar (D-Redlands), the representative of the County of Orange, Derek Tran (D-Orange) and the representative of the San Fernando Valley, Luz Rivas (D-North Hollywood), had also planned this week of the Hall of Pâque.
Legislators have attempted to use events to put pressure on republican members of swing districts to vote with democrats to block certain articles from Trump’s order to administration – or, failing that, to increase public pressure, vulnerable legislators lose their seats in mid -term elections of 2026.
“We are trying to return the three or four vulnerable Republicans to come by our side,” said Carbajal, whose Congress district extends through the counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.
Amy Vernetti, 57, who lives in Cayucos and recruits leaders of technological startups, came to the town hall in the hope of hearing a message of hope and unity that would soothe her “anger and confusion” on what she described as corruption by the Trump administration.
“If this year has shown us something, it is because this system may not be able to resist criminals,” said Vernetti.
There were massive demonstrations after Trump’s first inauguration, but this time, “it takes some time to take the momentum,” said Alexandra Kohler of San Luis Obispo.
Kohler, who brought her 18-year-old daughter to the town hall, said that she hoped that politicians like the Senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders and representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.), who broke records with a rally of 36,000 people in Los Angeles this month, will help breathe in the Democratic Party.
Emily Kohler, a high school student and one of the rare young people, said that she feared that so far, resistance to the Trump administration has been mainly led by the elderly.
People her age, she said, “feel above all more helpless, more resigning.”
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