{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/blogs/e-newsletter-week-of-october-27th", "e-Newsletter: Week of October 27th", "2023-10-27", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "Ted Cruz", "C001098", "www.cruz.senate.gov", "cruz", "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Good Evening,\n\nUnder the Biden administration\u2019s watch, our country is facing the worst illegal immigration crisis in our nation\u2019s history. We\u2019ve had 7.6 million illegal immigrants cross our southern border since Joe Biden took office. I have spent a lot of time at the southern border, and it is always shocking to see just how disastrous this crisis really is. Biden\u2019s open border policies have invited the cartels to brutalize children, to assault women, to overrun our communities with illegal aliens, and to flood this country with narcotics and fentanyl that kill over 100,000 people per year. Today, my boots are back on the ground in the Rio Grande Valley with Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) to meet with U.S. Border Patrol and witness first-hand just how rapidly the Biden Border Crisis has escalated in Texas over recent months.\n\nWatch the press conference recapping Biden's Border Crisis here.\n\nOn Tuesday, I joined Sean Hannity on Fox News to discuss how the Biden administration continues to install officials that undermine Israel.\n\n\u201cThe UN for a long time has been a vicious pit of anti-Israel [and] anti-Semitism. They have countries like Cuba, Libya, and Syria on the Human Rights Council. It\u2019s a mockery. \u2026 And I got to say it\u2019s striking, at the same time this is happening Joe Biden has nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Israel a man named Jack Lew. \u2026 Jack Lew was integral in the United Nation\u2019s passing UN Resolution 2334. \u2026 The most viciously anti-Semitic resolution the UN has ever passed.\u201d\n\nOn Tuesday, I also welcomed the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Santiago Pe\u00f1a, to my office where we discussed the vital importance of the alliance between our two nations to advance interests abroad, especially with Taiwan and Israel.\n\nOn Thursday, I delivered remarks on the Senate floor where I stood in opposition to the Biden administration\u2019s outrageous rule that would deny school lunches to children, most of whom come from low income families, unless parents and schools ram radical gender ideology down their throats.\n\n\u201cWhat is this issue about? It is Joe Biden and the Democrats who are taking food away from children. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has told schools, we will cut off your school lunch funding, [and] we will take the food off of your plates and out of your mouths unless the schools comply with the Biden administration\u2019s radical transgender policies.\u201d\n\nRest assured, I will continue to push back on the Democrat\u2019s radical agenda to strip our freedom and jeopardize our national security. God Bless!\n\nKeep Texas Strong,\n\nMORE FROM SEN. CRUZ:\n\nREAD: Ted Cruz demands action from Mayorkas over threats to Border Patrol agents: 'Cartels are emboldened'\n\nICYMI: Sen. Cruz, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Use Funds Seized From Corrupt Venezuelan Individuals for the Venezuelan People\n\nREAD: Sens. Cruz, Crapo, Ricketts Introduce Legislation to Halt Biden Electric Vehicles Mandate\n\nICYMI: Over 100 Lawmakers Call for CHIPS Permitting Reform in Final Defense Bill\n\nState Spotlight\n\nExecutive Committee of the South Texas Military Task Force\n\nTexas Tech University System\n\nCommerce Corner\n\nGreg Sankey, SEC Commissioner and Tony Petitti, BIG 10 Commissioner\n\nAlex Wilcox, CEO, JSX", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "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.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/blogs/e-newsletter-week-of-october-27th"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.597521059215069, "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"}