{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-chairs-hearing-on-the-radical-lefts-crusade-against-immigration-enforcement/", "Cornyn Chairs Hearing on the Radical Left\u2019s Crusade Against Immigration Enforcement", "2025-11-19", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "John Cornyn", "C001056", "www.cornyn.senate.gov", "cornyn", "https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today delivered the following opening remarks during the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration hearing he chaired entitled, \u201cICE Under Fire: The Radical Left\u2019s Crusade Against Immigration Enforcement.\u201d Excerpts are below, and video can be found here.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden invited millions of unvetted illegal aliens into the United States. These included hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens, violent gang members, and even individuals on the terror watch list.\u201d\n\n\u201cEver since President Trump was sworn into office and began prioritizing immigration enforcement, assaults and attacks on immigration agents and officers have skyrocketed.\u201d\n\n\u201cDHS has reported that currently more than 415,000 illegal aliens in the United States already have criminal convictions \u2013 415,000. Of that number, nearly 400,000 aren\u2019t even detained.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe only reason that ICE and CBP must go out in our streets and seek out and arrest criminal aliens is because sanctuary cities simply refuse to cooperate with law enforcement.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe mainstream media, unfortunately, has shown no willingness to educate the public. Instead of reporting these realities truthfully, mainstream media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and ABC have ignored the real harm that these criminal aliens have caused in these communities, and instead directed their ire toward law enforcement.\u201d\n\n\u201cSome of our Democratic colleagues have used incendiary rhetoric to fan the flames of public protests that are anything but mostly peaceful. The result has been widespread assaults on our law enforcement officers.\u201d\n\n\u201cProtesters have made violent threats against ICE officers, comparing them to fascists and Nazis, inciting more violence against immigration officers, who are again simply doing the job that Congress has asked them to do.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhy is the Radical Left so intent on protecting illegal aliens over U.S. citizens who are suffering the consequences of violent crime? To me, that is the most important question that remains unanswered.\u201d", 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://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-chairs-hearing-on-the-radical-lefts-crusade-against-immigration-enforcement/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8757403120398521, "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"}