{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://brecheen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=221", "Congressman Brecheen Demands President Biden Opposes Paroling Palestinians into the U.S. Following Hamas Attacks on Israel", "2023-10-23", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "House", "OK", "Josh Brecheen", "B001317", "brecheen.house.gov", "brecheen", "https://brecheen.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Josh Brecheen sent a letter to President Biden calling on him to oppose paroling Palestinians into the U.S. following Hamas\u2019 heinous attack on Israel.\n\nThe Daily Caller\u2019s Jennie Taer wrote an exclusive report on the letter, which you can read here.\n\nThe letter reads, in part:\n\n\u201cIn light of recent news that members of your party are encouraging Palestinians to be paroled into the United States following Hamas\u2019s attack on innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, we write to you to remind the administration that no authority exists to grant categorical parole and we are deeply opposed to any potential attempts to parole into the U.S. Palestinians en masse following Israel\u2019s counteroffensive against Hamas in Gaza.\n\nIn the past week, we have seen disgraceful protests in cities and college campuses across America in support of Hamas\u2019 attack against Israel. It is deeply concerning that some of these gatherings have put on display hatred and vitriol against the Jewish people. For example, the New York City Democratic Socialists of America chapter gathered in Times Square the day after Hamas\u2019s initial attack, celebrating it as a \u2018resistance,\u2019 with one protestor saying he \u2018might do the same thing because there\u2019s nothing left to lose.\u2019 Stanford University suspended one of its professors after students reported him shamefully defending Hamas as \u2018freedom fighters\u2019 and later forcing Jewish students to stand alone in the corner of the room to signify Palestinian life in Gaza. These protests even made their way to the halls of Congress as Palestinian supporters flooded the Cannon House Office Building rotunda falsely claiming Palestinians were being \u2018ethnically cleansed.\u2019\u201d\n\nRead the full letter here.\n\nCosigners include: Representatives Andy Ogles (R-TN), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), and Clay Higgins (R-LA).", 1, "2026-04-07T14:30:38Z", "2026-04-07T14:34:08Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://brecheen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=221"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.5134701281785965, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}