{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-carter-statement-southwest-border-visit", "Congressman Carter Statement on Southwest Border Visit", "2023-04-24", "2023", "2023-04", "Democrat", "House", "LA", "Troy A. Carter", "C001125", "troycarter.house.gov", "troycarter", "https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-La.) released the following statement on his trip with the Democratic Members of the Committee on Homeland Security to the Southwest Border. The visit included a discussion of border security and immigration issues with local officials and tours of the DHS border facilities and technologies in Brownsville and McAllen, Texas. Members heard from Custom and Border Protection\u2019s Office of Field Operations, U.S Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, and CBP Air and Marine Operations.\n\n\u201c\u200bMost migrants coming to our border have no other legal pathway to U.S. citizenship and are here seeking asylum \u2013 which is their legal right. However, our system was not set up for the kind of volume we are experiencing, and it is unsustainable.\n\n\u201cWe need comprehensive immigration reform to fix our broken system and save lives. I was grateful for the opportunity to visit Texas and learn first-hand from professionals who are in the thick of this crisis.\n\n\u201cImmigrant rights are human rights! Let\u2019s deliver them a pathway to citizenship.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T23:44:29Z"]], "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://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-carter-statement-southwest-border-visit"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.868713017553091, "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"}