{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20140801003021/http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release-obama-administration-is-hiding-numbers-of-illegals-in-louisiana", "Release: Obama Administration is Hiding Numbers of Illegals in Louisiana", "2014-07-31", "2014", "2014-07", "Republican", "House", "LA", "David Vitter", "V000127", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "Release: Obama Administration is Hiding Numbers of Illegals in Louisiana\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThursday, July 31, 2014\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t(Washington, D.C.) \u2013 U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) said today that the Obama administration is hiding numbers about how many unaccompanied alien children (UAC) are in Louisiana. On July 10, 2014 Vitter requested specific information about how many immigrant minors are being relocated to Louisiana. While the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not responded, Vitter has uncovered that there are a total of 3215 cases in Louisiana.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been warning the administration for months that this would happen. Our borders go unsecured and our president does everything in his power to hinder Border Patrol, so an influx of illegal immigrants should come as no surprise,\u201d Vitter said. \u201cThe administration is trying to hide the truth, but we know that there are at least 3215 cases in Louisiana. This is already a national crisis \u2013 it certainly shouldn\u2019t become a Louisiana crisis too.\u201d\nVitter has had to confirm through an anonymous Immigrations and Customs Agency official that there have been 1,259 new cases opened for juveniles in Louisiana since the crisis began. There were already 1,956 juvenile cases, putting the total at 3,215.\nOn the Senate floor last week Vitter highlighted several facilities, including military bases, in Louisiana that have been contacted by the Obama Administration to house unaccompanied alien children (UACs).\nClick here to watch Vitter\u2019s remarks on the Senate floor from last week.\nBelow are the details of who has been contacted.\nFort Polk\u2019s Army Residential Communities Initiative (RCI) housing office was notified by United States Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) Headquarters and asked if they could house between 400-500 UACs.\nBarksdale was asked via Air Force Global Strike Command by the Department of Defense on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security on three separate occasions about capacity (most recently on 30 June) to see what was feasible.\nHirsch Coliseum in Shreveport, LA was contacted by International Association of Fairs and Expositions (IAFE) to see if they could house illegal immigrants at the fairgrounds. Hirsch has been used for housing people displaced by hurricanes.\nVitter also highlighted that the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has confirmed that of the 381,458 apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley sector of the Southwestern Border since October 1, 2013, only 57,567 or (15 percent) were children 17 or younger; 268,493 were adults without children.\nIn a letter on January 15, 2014, Vitter called out the administration for its practices of assisting foreign children being smuggled into the country illegally without penalizing their parents. Vitter asked DHS how many times this practice has occurred but didn\u2019t get an answer.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://web.archive.org/web/20140801003021/http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release-obama-administration-is-hiding-numbers-of-illegals-in-louisiana"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9987141713500023, "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"}