{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-exposes-whistleblower-claim-biden-dhs-pulled-agents-child-exploitation-cases-make-sandwiches/", "Hawley Exposes Whistleblower Claim that Biden DHS Pulled Agents from Child Exploitation Cases to Make Sandwiches at Southern Border", "2023-10-31", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "During a second round of questioning at today\u2019s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called out Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for taking special investigators off of human trafficking and fentanyl cases and reassigning them to in-person services at the southern border.\n\nSenator Hawley referenced a whistleblower who came to him with these allegations, then questioned the Secretary. \u201cYou\u2019re taking special agents away from investigating child traffickers and child exploitation\u2014when you\u2019ve lost tens of thousands of kids to traffickers\u2014and you\u2019re sending them to make sandwiches at the border,\u201d said Senator Hawley. \u201cWhat is going on?\u201d\n\nSecretary Mayorkas dodged Senator Hawley\u2019s questions about how many migrant children the Biden Administration has recovered out of the 85,000 it has lost. The Secretary also did not deny the DHS whistleblower allegation that at least 600 agents have been pulled from law enforcement work and put on different duties at the southern border.\n\nClick here or above to watch the full exchange.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:43:12Z"]], "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.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-exposes-whistleblower-claim-biden-dhs-pulled-agents-child-exploitation-cases-make-sandwiches/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8273876048624516, "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"}