{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom-news-releases-barrasso-travels-to-southern-border-for-update-on-bidens-border-crisis/", "Barrasso Travels to Southern Border for Update on Biden\u2019s Border Crisis", "2023-11-03", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) recently traveled to Texas with his Senate Republican colleagues to tour the Rio Grande Valley and receive a firsthand update on Biden\u2019s Border Crisis.\n\nThe senators met with Customs and Border Patrol agents for briefings, did a midnight patrol, joined Border Patrol on a horseback ride-along, and inspected the border wall.\n\nSenator Barrasso was joined by U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah).\n\n\u201cNational security starts with border security and under President Joe Biden, our country is a lot less safe because our southern border is wide open,\u201d said Senator Barrasso.\n\nBarrasso and his colleagues made it a priority to thank Border Patrol agents for the sacrifices they make each day to protect our country and secure our border.\n\n\u201cThe Border Patrol agents across our southern border are heroes. They put their own lives on the line every day for the benefit and safety of our country. They have a tough job, but the Biden administration is making it a lot tougher,\u201d said Barrasso. \u201cBorder Patrol knows what they need to do to solve the problem: enforce the law, bring back the Remain in Mexico policy, and finish the wall. Joe Biden won\u2019t let them do any of this.\u201d\n\n\u201cIf you talk to Border Patrol, they will tell you terrorists and criminals are coming in record numbers from around the world,\u201d said Barrasso. \u201cThere are thousands of got-aways each and every day. They are taking advantage of the significant increase in the flow of illegal immigrants over our border to infiltrate our cities.\u201d\n\nOnce again, Barrasso called on President Biden to visit the southern border in person and hear directly from Border Patrol agents.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden needs to finally show up to the southern border to see firsthand the humanitarian, criminal and national security crisis he has created. He needs to hear directly from Border Patrol agents and give them every resource they need to secure our border,\u201d said Barrasso.\n\n\u201cThe people of Wyoming and around the country want a safe and prosperous nation with a secure border. Senate Republicans are committed to protecting the homeland and will restore safety and security in our nation\u2019s communities.\u201d\n\nClick HERE to watch a YouTube video of Sen. Barrasso\u2019s trip to the border.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:49:58Z"]], "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://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom-news-releases-barrasso-travels-to-southern-border-for-update-on-bidens-border-crisis/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7951199077069759, "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"}