{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://chuygarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-jes-s-chuy-garc-urges-congress-provide-survival-checks-all-families", "Congressman Jes\u00fas \u201cChuy\u201d Garc\u00eda Urges Congress to Provide Survival Checks to All Families Including Immigrant & Mixed Status Families", "2020-12-16", "2020", "2020-12", "Democrat", "House", "IL", "Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda", "G000586", "chuygarcia.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, DC- In a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Jess Chuy Garca (IL-04) today called on negotiators to include direct assistance, in the form of stimulus checks, for immigrant and mixed-status families in any COVID-19 emergency relief package. These are his remarks as delivered:\nThe video of the speech can be found here.\nWe are close to finalizing a relief package, but I ask my colleagues: Relief for whom? A relief package without survival checks is not a relief package at all! Nor is a relief package that leaves out millions of immigrants and their families.\nAny deal we strike must include survival checks to families -- and -- immigrants and mixed-status families.\nEarlier this year, countless families I represent were denied stimulus checks, including U.S. Citizens, whose spouses are immigrants. We even excluded children who may have an immigrant parent. How in the world did we exclude U.S citizen children?\nIn this season of sacred holidays, I implore all of us to be compassionate and not punish kids for their parents' status.\nFamilies are struggling to put food on the table and to keep a roof over their heads. Circumstances are dire. We need to put money directly into working families' pockets.\nI urge my colleagues that any relief package must include survival checks for everyone, including immigrant children.\n###\nEl Congresista Jess Chuy Garca Insta a Que Todas las Familias Reciban Cheques De Supervivencia, Incluidas Familias Inmigrantes y de Estatus Mixto\nWashington, DC- En un discurso en el pleno de la Cmara de Representantes de Estados Unidos, el congresista Jess Chuy Garca (IL-04) pidi hoy a los negociadores que incluyan asistencia directa, en forma de cheques de estmulo, para inmigrantes y familias de estatus mixto en cualquier paquete de ayuda de emergencia por COVID-19.\nEl video del discurso en ingls puede encontrarse aqu.\nEsta es la traduccin del discurso:\nEstamos cerca de finalizar un paquete de ayuda, pero les pregunto a mis colegas: Alivio para quin? Un paquete de ayuda sin cheques de supervivencia no es un paquete de ayuda en absoluto! Tampoco es un paquete de ayuda si deja fuera a millones de inmigrantes y sus familias.\nCualquier acuerdo que logremos debe incluir cheques de supervivencia para las familias inmigrantes y familias de estatus mixto.\nA principios de este ao, a innumerables familias que yo represento se les negaron los cheques de estmulo, incluyendo muchos ciudadanos estadounidenses, cuyos cnyuges son inmigrantes. Incluso excluimos a los nios por tener un padre inmigrante. Cmo es posible que hayamos excluido a nios que son ciudadanos estadounidenses?\nEn esta temporada de fiestas, les imploro a todos que seamos compasivos y no castiguemos a los nios por el estatus de sus padres.\nLas familias estn luchando por poner comida en la mesa y mantener un techo sobre sus cabezas. Las circunstancias son espantosas. Necesitamos poner dinero directamente en los bolsillos de las familias trabajadoras.\nInsto a mis colegas a que cualquier paquete de ayuda debe incluir controles de supervivencia para todos, incluidos los nios inmigrantes.\n  \n\t###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://chuygarcia.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-jes-s-chuy-garc-urges-congress-provide-survival-checks-all-families"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4933219645172358, "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"}