{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/what-world-do-you-live-in-hawley-condemns-democrat-plot-for-mass-amnesty/", "\u2018What World Do You Live in?\u2019: Hawley Condemns Democrat Plot for\u00a0\u2018Mass Amnesty\u2019", "2024-12-10", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Today in a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) blasted the Democrats\u2019 push for amnesty for illegal immigrants.\n\n\u201cWhy would you want American citizens and those who are here lawfully to have to compete against illegal immigrants,\u201d Senator Hawley asked Aaron Reichlin-Melnik, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council.\n\nHe continued, \u201cIf you\u2019re wondering America, here\u2019s the Democrats plan. Take the thirteen million plus illegals, who are here taking jobs from Americans, taking wages down, taking healthcare benefits, and bring them here legally so that they can continue to drive down wages, flood the labor force, and suppress all of the above.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had an open border for the last four years. We have had de facto amnesty [\u2026] for the last fifteen plus years. It has been a disaster, people have died because of it, wages are lower because of it, our streets are in chaos because of it, and now you and the Democrat party say \u2018more of the same, more of the same, let\u2019s double down.\u2019 [\u2026] I think that is insanity, it is total insanity and the American people do too,\u201d he concluded.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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/what-world-do-you-live-in-hawley-condemns-democrat-plot-for-mass-amnesty/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9536012075841427, "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"}