{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ramirez-urges-administration-and-congressional-leaders-reject-inhumane", "Ramirez Urges Administration and Congressional Leaders to Reject Inhumane, Ineffective Republican Immigration Policies", "2023-12-13", "2023", "2023-12", "Democrat", "House", "IL", "Delia C. Ramirez", "R000617", "ramirez.house.gov", "ramirez", "https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03) released a statement pressing on President Biden to reject the Trump-era immigration policies being considered in the ongoing negotiations around the supplemental aid package:\n\n\u201cMigrants, both those seeking asylum and those waiting for Congress to create legal pathways to citizenship, must not be used as a bargaining chip in ongoing negotiations related to appropriations and supplementals. Three decades of failed policy should be enough evidence that detaining, deporting and criminalizing immigrants is not the answer to the realities of global migration.\n\n\u201cWhat our country is communicating, right now, by our actions is that Ukrainian refugees are more valuable than El Salvadorian or Venezuelan refugees. I wholeheartedly reject the idea that it is \u2018leadership\u2019 to welcome some people whose lives have been upended by war, poverty, and natural disasters while jailing others. We must uphold the humanity of all refugees and ensure they are welcomed and protected, whether they are escaping from a war in Ukraine or fleeing gang violence in Venezuela. We can provide humanitarian aid to our allies abroad while simultaneously providing humanitarian refuge here at home.\n\n\u201cDo we need immigration reform? HELL YES! House Republican H.R. 2, the Child Deportation Act, is not the answer. Expedited removal is not the answer. Entrenching legal pathways to asylum is not the answer. Family detention is not the answer. Throwing billions of dollars at invasive, ineffective surveillance and military enforcement has destroyed lives and failed to successfully slow migration: it is both bad policy and grossly immoral.\n\n\u201cWe must invest in solutions that show promise to address the root causes of migration. We need to strengthen democracies in the Americas and address our years of destabilizing foreign policy around the world. We need economic development in the Northern Triangle. We must invest in policies that recognize our interconnectedness.\u201d\n\n\u201cI will vote NO on any supplemental that includes destructive, harmful, immoral, irresponsible border provisions. We must remember who sent us here and stand strong in our defense of migrant communities.\u201d\n\nThe statement comes after Ramirez\u2019s participation in a press conference with the members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and leading Congressional Democrats urging President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to reject Republican immigration and border proposals in the ongoing negotiations around the supplemental aid package.\n\nTo watch the press conference, click HERE.\n\nBACKGROUND\n\nAs the proud daughter of immigrants, the wife of a Dreamer, representative of IL-03, and the Vice Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez has worked tirelessly to humanely address immigration, bring resources back to the district and has stood against the constant scapegoating of immigrant communities throughout her first year of serving in Congress.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "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://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ramirez-urges-administration-and-congressional-leaders-reject-inhumane"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.584641169756651, "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"}