{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-miller-joins-cpac-anti-human-trafficking-summit", "Rep. Miller Joins CPAC Anti-Human Trafficking Summit", "2023-07-31", "2023", "2023-07", "Republican", "House", "WV", "Carol D. Miller", "M001205", "miller.house.gov", "miller", "https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) for an anti human trafficking summit. Remarks as prepared are below.\n\nClick here to watch Rep. Miller speak on the panel.\n\nThank you for having me today. This is a sobering topic, but not one we should shy away from.\n\nAmericans are well aware of the broader crisis at the southern border. The media and politicians are quick to highlight the flood of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States, but the evil of human trafficking is often overlooked.\n\nIt\u2019s nearly impossible to know the exact statistics of human trafficking. Mexican cartels have found that trafficking people is actually more profitable than drug smuggling.\n\nThink of the moral repercussions that the open southern border has. Parents are lured to America with the false promise of a better life. They figure that to give them the American dream, they sell their children to the cartels who will transport them to the states, but those children are often trafficked and forced into slave labor and sex slavery.\n\nThe American dream becomes a never-ending nightmare for these children.\n\nHouse Republicans see the layers of devastation happening at the southern border and I have seen it first-hand.\n\nI have travelled on Congressional delegation trips to the Border, to Mexico, and to several other Latin American countries. What I learned on all these trips is how important a range of U.S. policies is to protecting women and girls.\n\nFrom trade policy to border policy, we must use our full range of options to stop the horror of human trafficking.\n\nSpeaker McCarthy formed the \u2018Combatting Mexican Cartels\u2019 taskforce to put legislative solutions in place that will restore integrity back to Americas borders. I am proud to serve on this task force.\n\nAs the taskforce meets and gathers information, it becomes clearer and clearer that human trafficking is a massive problem that will continue to get worse until we take power away from the cartels. By the end of the year, we will suggest policy solutions to many of these issues that can quickly pass Congress and be signed into law.\n\nWe also know that one of our best tools in fighting this crisis is working well with the Mexican government. We want the same results: for the cartels to be disbanded and for these criminal and evil acts to stop.\n\nAn argument I often hear from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle is that closing the southern border is immoral. To that I say, because of the failed border policies from the Biden Administration, more people are dying, and children are being trafficked as a direct result of these policies.\n\nI am confident the taskforce will produce legislation and results that will protect the innocent from the horrors of the cartels. As a mother, grandmother, and American, this is one of my top priorities in congress.\n\nBackground:\n\nCongresswoman Miller has been appointed by Speaker McCarthy to the Combatting Mexican Cartels taskforce where legislation is produced to prevent drug cartels from entering the United States and keeping Americans safe from crime and illegal drug substances due to an open southern border.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:18:03Z"]], "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://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-miller-joins-cpac-anti-human-trafficking-summit"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5654070302844048, "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"}