California state senators protested the Trump administration’s actions in Los Angeles during a demonstration outside the Capitol Friday morning, pausing a major budget vote to decry Trump’s “federal siege” of California’s largest city.

“There is no justification in democracy for the un-American federal siege of California,” said Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire, D-Santa Rosa. “We will bend to no tyrant, and the people of California will prevail.”

The action comes in the aftermath of the mobilization of the National Guard and U.S. Marines in response to protests over federal immigration enforcement. It also follows a Thursday incident where security personnel forcibly removed California Sen. Alex Padilla from a Department of Homeland Security news conference. McGuire referenced the incident during his remarks, noting Padilla is a former California state Senator.

“The harder President Trump comes at California,” McGuire said, “the more unified we will be.”

McGuire had called a recess amid Senate budget negotiations, and led a coalition of Democratic lawmakers down to the Capitol west steps for the news conference.

Republican senators stayed behind. Senate Republican Leader Brian Jones, R-Santee, spoke to the assembled bipartisan group before the procession occurred.

“I understand the perspective of a siege, but some people would argue that that started in the prior presidential administration with an open border policy,” he said.

Senate President Pro Tem-designee Monique Limón, D-Goleta, said on Thursday she had visited Ventura and Oxnard, where community organizers say federal officials detained 35 farmworkers.

“Among the many devastations was also a 12-year-old boy who was left without parents,” she said. “No idea where those parents are.”

The demonstration occurred in the midst of tense budget negotiations, which the Legislature is expected to finalize today.

Democrats with the Latino Legislative Caucus came out strong against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget in May, opposing his enrollment freeze and new premiums for immigrants with unsatisfactory immigration status. The Legislature’s budget proposal rejected a number of the changes, and softened or delayed others.

Still, a number of lawmakers remained opposed to any targeted change to the health care of immigrants. Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno, voted against the budget earlier that morning — the only Democrat to do so in the Assembly.

State Senator María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, voted against the budget in the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review committee on Wednesday. She spoke during Friday morning’s demonstration in her capacity as co-chair of the Los Angeles County Legislative Delegation.

“The Constitution of the United States is clear,” she said. “Due process is not a privilege granted only to some. It is a fundamental right that belongs and applies to all people on American soil.”

Senators are expected to vote on the budget Friday. If the budget passes from both houses, Newsom and his office will have another chance to weigh in, and negotiations will continue to the end of the month. Newsom is expected to sign the budget by June 27.