{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stanton.house.gov/2022/5/stanton-porter-lead-house-colleagues-in-calling-for-additional-resources-at-the-southern-border", "Stanton, Porter Lead House Colleagues in Calling for Additional Resources at the Southern Border", "2022-05-10", "2022", "2022-05", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Greg Stanton", "S001211", "stanton.house.gov", "stanton", "https://stanton.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Reps. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Katie Porter (D-Calif.) today led a group of colleagues in urging House leadership to promptly take up supplemental funding legislation for the southern border.\n\n\u201cWe have heard clearly\u2014from humanitarian organizations, border communities, and law enforcement\u2014that additional resources are the only way to secure our southern border, and to give refugees access to a safe, orderly, and lawful asylum process,\u201d the representatives wrote in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nThe letter comes in advance of the anticipated end of Title 42 restrictions, which the Biden Administration has said will end on May 23.\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security\u2019s plans for managing a likely three-fold surge in those attempting to cross the southern border between ports of entry depend heavily on additional resources for DHS and humanitarian organizations. However, DHS and many of its partner organizations are already overstretched and operating at the margins in terms of staffing, beds, transportation, and other core resources, and they cannot increase capacity without additional support.\n\n\u201cTo avoid a crisis at the border, Congress must provide DHS and humanitarian organizations with the resources they need as soon as possible and before the end of Title 42,\u201d the representatives said. \u201cWe support an emergency funding bill that will allow DHS to hire additional agents, increase the number of beds at its facilities, and give more support to humanitarian organizations working with migrants in need.\u201d\n\nLast month at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Stanton pressed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the department\u2019s lack of an effective plan to handle a significant increase migration at the border.\n\n\u201cPutting more pressure on a system that can\u2019t handle it carries a significant risk of creating a full-scale humanitarian crisis on American soil for which the White House and your Department will be solely responsible,\u201d Stanton said to Mayorkas.\n\nStanton and a group of bipartisan lawmakers previously introduced legislation to force the Administration to put together a plan to handle the expected increased spring and summer traffic before lifting the order. He also urged President Biden to delay rescinding Title 42 measures until the Department of Homeland Security has a workable plan to handle the expected significant increase in border traffic.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:29:07Z"]], "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://stanton.house.gov/2022/5/stanton-porter-lead-house-colleagues-in-calling-for-additional-resources-at-the-southern-border"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8556791581213474, "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"}