{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-angie-craig-calls-house-leadership-move-quickly-border-security", "Rep. Angie Craig Calls on House Leadership to Move Quickly on Border Security Legislation", "2023-10-31", "2023", "2023-10", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Angie Craig", "C001119", "craig.house.gov", "craig", "https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 U.S. Representative Angie Craig is calling on congressional leadership to move quickly on border security legislation.\n\nRep. Craig joined 34 Members of Congress in writing to congressional leadership, requesting a timely vote on a comprehensive bipartisan border security package.\n\nAs part of her call for action, Rep. Craig is pushing to increase funding to secure the border, ensure a humane and orderly immigration process and stop the flow of illicit fentanyl into the United States.\n\n\u201cWe understand emergency funding is necessary to secure our border, ensure a humane and orderly immigration process and stop the flow of illicit fentanyl into the United States,\u201d wrote the Members.\n\n\u201cSecuring our nation\u2019s southern border is a bipartisan goal, and the shared responsibility of all Members of Congress. We ask that you swiftly bring this important package to a vote on the floor,\u201d they continued.\n\nFull text of the letter can be found here or copied below.\n\nOctober 26, 2023\n\nThe Honorable Charles E. Schumer\n\nMajority Leader\n\nUnited States Senate\n\nWashington, D.C. 20510\n\nThe Honorable Mike Johnson\n\nSpeaker of the House\n\nUnited States House of Representatives\n\nWashington, DC 20510\n\nThe Honorable Mitch McConnell\n\nMinority Leader\n\nUnited States Senate\n\nWashington, DC 20510\n\nThe Honorable Hakeem Jeffries\n\nMinority Leader\n\nUnited States House of Representatives\n\nWashington, DC 20510\n\nDear Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, Minority Leaders McConnell and Jeffries,\n\nWe urge you to quickly bring a bipartisan border security package reflecting the President\u2019s Fiscal Year 2024 emergency supplemental request to the House and Senate floor. As members of the New Democrat Coalition, we understand emergency funding is necessary to secure our border, ensure a humane and orderly immigration process, and stop the flow of illicit fentanyl into the United States.\n\nPresident Biden has put forth a strong and comprehensive border security package in his supplemental request.\n\nThe requested $13.6 billion investment would:\n\nIncrease boots on the ground at the border.\n\nThe request ensures the Department of Homeland Security has the additional resources and personnel to accomplish their mission of maintaining border security while assisting refugees and processing migrants, including funds to hire an additional 1,300 border patrol agents.\n\nImprove the processing of asylum cases.\n\nThe request includes funding to hire 375 new immigration judge teams and 1,600 asylum officers to tackle the significant backlog straining our immigration courts that has severely delayed resolutions, often for years at a time.\n\nSupport local governments and nonprofits.\n\nThe request includes $1.4 billion for the depleted Shelter and Services Program which reimburses already-overstretched local governments and nonprofits who provide essential resources to recently released migrants.\n\nAddress the illicit fentanyl crisis.\n\nThe request includes funding to hire an additional 1,000 officers focused on counter-fentanyl efforts and to purchase cutting-edge technology to stop the flow of illicit fentanyl into the United States. Deaths related to the use of illicit fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have risen by nearly 200% in the past decade, affecting nearly every American community in the process. Each of these investments will reduce illicit fentanyl trafficking and save lives.\n\nSecuring our nation\u2019s southern border is a bipartisan goal, and the shared responsibility of all members of Congress. We ask that you swiftly bring this important package to a vote on the floor.\n\nThank you for your attention to this important matter.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "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://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-angie-craig-calls-house-leadership-move-quickly-border-security"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.5518801044672728, "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"}