{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-denounces-trumps-immigration-overreach-house-floor", "Ocasio-Cortez Denounces Trump\u2019s Immigration Overreach on House Floor", "2025-12-16", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "NY", "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez", "O000172", "ocasio-cortez.house.gov", "ocasio-cortez", "https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WATCH HERE\n\nIn New York City, there are at least five publicly reported cases of K-12 student arrests, deporting children as young as six years old.\n\nOver 70 percent of people currently detained in detention facilities do not have a criminal record.\n\nWashington, D.C. - Today, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) delivered the following remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives:\n\n\u201cMr. Speaker,\n\nPresident Trump ran on a promise to the American people that ICE would go after the \u201cworst of the worst\u201d.\n\nWell, we\u2019re now coming up on a year of this presidency, and I want to talk to the folks at home who feel disillusioned by what ICE is doing in our country.\n\nBecause what we have seen is that ICE is not overwhelmingly going after criminals.\n\nIn fact, over 70 percent of people currently detained in detention facilities do not have a criminal record.\n\nSo who are they going after?\n\nThey are going after 6-year olds in my district.\n\nThey are going after students and permanent residents for their political views.\n\nThey are going after Americans born and raised in the United States.\n\nAnd time and time again, Trump has floated taking away citizenship from U.S. citizens based on their ethnicity.\n\nAt every point, this administration has lied to us about ICE in America while some of the wealthiest actors in our country have tried to sell us a myth to defend it. Including private prison contractors.\n\nAnd that myth, that ideology, is that our immigrant neighbors are our enemies and more dangerous than us.\n\nAnd they sustain that myth, because if everybody believes it, they can get away with robbing all of us.\n\nI want to remind you where the real crime is.\n\nIt\u2019s in the oligarchs taking 170 billion dollars of our money from healthcare, and food assistance, and public programs - and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.\n\nIt\u2019s the authoritarians trying to create a black box because once it is established, they can put political dissidence inside of it.\n\nBut, their hatred is a story, a myth. And we can choose to reject it.\n\nDonald Trump and Stephen Miller want you to believe that this is who we are as a country.\n\nAnd we are here to say that it is not.\n\nWe are a country that has fought and defeated the Confederacy. That has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism.\n\nWe are a country guided by a monument to freedom on the waters of New York City, who shines brightly and welcomes \u201cthe huddled masses yearning to breathe free\u201d to our shores.\n\nSo right now, I ask everyone in our country to fight for that ideal.\n\nTo fight for this legacy.\n\nThank you, and I yield back.\u201d\n\nPresident Trump promised to the American people that ICE would target the \u201cworst of the worst\u201d. Now, this past week, President Trump said that he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d denaturalize certain Americans if he could.\n\nIn October, Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat (NY-13), and Goldman (NY-10) led a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon expressing profound concern over the pattern of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeting students across the country.\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "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://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-denounces-trumps-immigration-overreach-house-floor"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0655820262618363, "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"}