{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-questions-witnesses-hearing-sanctuary-jurisdictions", "Congressman Cohen Questions Witnesses at Hearing on Sanctuary Jurisdictions", "2026-09-01", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "TN", "Steve Cohen", "C001068", "cohen.house.gov", "cohen", "https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 The Republican-led Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement today held yet another hearing on sanctuary jurisdictions in advance of the November midterm elections. Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, questioned witnesses about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents\u2019 accountability after killings in Minnesota and the competence of immigration policy leadership, and then focused on an incident over the weekend in Memphis.\n\nIn his remarks, he said in part:\n\n\u201cIf we had better people running ICE what happened (in Minnesota) may not have occurred. We need experts - law enforcement experts \u2013 top notch people who know what they\u2019re doing and can zero in on \u2018the worst of the worst\u2019 and get them off the streets and out of the country.\u201d\n\nCongressman Cohen said neither of Trump\u2019s picks to run the Department of Homeland Security \u2013 Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin \u2013 were qualified.\n\nHe continued:\n\n\u201cSanctuary cities are not the problem. Memphis is not a sanctuary city, but just this weekend we had the largest ICE raid in Memphis history. They picked up a hundred people out of a bar and took them and put them in buses at 2 o\u2019clock in the morning. They claim they went to the bar, which is in a Hispanic neighborhood, because they had gambling going on\u2026They took people out of the community. The Memphis mayor objected. I object. We don\u2019t need the National Guard in Memphis. We don\u2019t need ICE in Memphis. We need rational law enforcement and rational immigration (policy). We don\u2019t have it.\u201d\n\nSee his remarks here.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-09-02T09:19:58Z", "2026-09-02T09:20:51Z"]], "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://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-questions-witnesses-hearing-sanctuary-jurisdictions"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8012549951672554, "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"}