{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://salinas.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-andrea-salinas-delivers-remarks-arrests-us-citizens-during-immigration", "Rep. Andrea Salinas Delivers Remarks on the Arrests of U.S. Citizens During Immigration Raids", "2025-11-20", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "House", "OR", "Andrea Salinas", "S001226", "salinas.house.gov", "salinas", "https://salinas.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Image\n\nClick here to watch Rep. Salinas\u2019 full remarks.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) joined the House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee to deliver remarks and question witnesses about how U.S. citizens, including Oregonians, are being arrested during the Trump Administration\u2019s immigration raids. Rep. Salinas underscored how ICE\u2019s repeated abuses against American citizens are terrorizing communities and inflicting trauma on innocent Oregonians.\n\nA transcript of Salinas\u2019 remarks is available below:\n\nThank you, Chair Thompson, and thank you to the Homeland Security Democrats for allowing those of us who do not serve on the committee to be with you all today. And thank you so much to our witnesses. You have been incredible.\n\nAnd I\u2019m so grateful to ProPublica for publishing their investigation detailing the 170 citizens who have been detained.\n\nI would argue that it\u2019s at least 172, and I have two stories directly from Oregon.\n\nEarlier this month, Sandra, a U.S. citizen, and her husband were driving just east of Portland when they were stopped by ICE. Despite claiming they were only targeting Sandra\u2019s husband, ICE dragged Sandra from her car, pointed a gun in her face, handcuffed her wrists to her ankles, and detained her for hours in the Portland field office\u2014it\u2019s not a detention facility.\n\nIt was only then, hours later that ICE realized their mistake: Sandra is an American citizen. No one deserves to be treated that way. Nobody. Not even noncitizens, and certainly American citizens.\n\nUpon her release, the ICE officer who had detained her even apologized for how he treated her, saying he was just \u201creally pissed off.\u201d\n\nJust south of Portland, in Milwaukie, Frank, another U.S. citizen, was abducted from his job by masked, plainclothes ICE agents\u2014so he could not identify who they were.\n\nThese unidentified agents forced him onto the floor of a van and took him straight to the Portland Field Office for detainment.\n\nFor hours, Frank pleaded with the agents, telling them they had the wrong guy. Eventually, ICE realized their mistake and took Frank back to work\u2014all without any information or any type of justification for his arrest.\n\nAnd these are just two of several stories that we have been hearing in Oregon, and all across Oregon, but obviously the Portland area has had a lot of attention.\n\nAnd we have been hearing these stories about people being traumatized and mishandled by ICE agents, and it\u2019s important, I think, that we continue to share these stories, again, from people who are citizens and noncitizens. I represent the Willamette Valley, so we have a lot of farmworkers, a lot of folks in hospitality, but we also have people who are business owners, who have lived in our communities for thirty, forty years and are TPS holders. People who are the fabric of our community and just want to continue living their lives.\n\nWith that, I have a few questions for our witnesses.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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://salinas.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-andrea-salinas-delivers-remarks-arrests-us-citizens-during-immigration"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7050779424607754, "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"}