{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-slams-biden-official-releasing-migrant-children-human-traffickers/", "Hawley Slams Biden Official for Releasing Migrant Children to Human Traffickers", "2023-10-25", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Robin Dunn Marcos, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, about the ongoing child migrant crisis at the southern border and the 85,000 children that the Biden Administration has lost track of.\n\n\u201cDo you really think that you are helping these children by releasing them to labor traffickers and yes, sex traffickers?\u201d asked Senator Hawley. \u201c85,000 children whom you have no contact with and your answer is\u2014we gave them a presentation before we turned them over to these people who are exploiting them on a scale not seen in this country for 100 years.\u201d\n\nWhen Senator Hawley pressed Director Dunn Marcos to say exactly how many migrant children the department had released into the United States and was also currently in contact with, the Director had no response.\n\n\u201cLet me just ask you this,\u201d said Senator Hawley. \u201cHow many kids right now\u2014of the 430,000 approximately unaccompanied children who have crossed the border under this administration, it\u2019s an astounding number\u2014how many are you in regular contact with, right now?\u201d\n\nDirector Dunn Marcos could not answer Senator Hawley\u2019s question.\n\nWatch the full exchange here or below.", 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-slams-biden-official-releasing-migrant-children-human-traffickers/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8128099143505096, "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"}