{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hirono.senate.gov/news/press-releases/hirono-statement-on-trump-administrations-announcement-that-it-will-end-policy-that-lengthens-incarceration-of-unaccompanied-minors", "Hirono Statement on Trump Administration\u2019s Announcement that it Will End Policy that Lengthens Incarceration of Unaccompanied Minors", "2018-12-19", "2018", "2018-12", "Democrat", "House", "HI", "Mazie Hirono", "H001042", "www.hirono.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "December 19, 2018\n\t\t\t Hirono Statement on Trump Administration's Announcement that it Will End Policy that Lengthens Incarceration of Unaccompanied Minors \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON,\r\nD.C.  Senator\r\nMazie K. Hirono issued the following statement after the Trump Administration\r\nannounced it would end its policy of requiring fingerprinting of all adult\r\nmembers in the households of potential sponsors for unaccompanied minor\r\nimmigrants to the United States:  Last\r\nweekend, I visited Tornillo  a tent city housing 2,700 unaccompanied children\r\nfrom across the southern border. I saw how the Trump administration made a dire\r\nsituation even worse by requiring fingerprinting of every adult in the\r\nhousehold of potential sponsors before these incarcerated children could be\r\nreleased. This requirement was not only unnecessary, but had a chilling effect\r\nby instilling a fear of deportation in mixed-status sponsor households.   Thousands\r\nof children have been incarcerated for months as they wait for sponsors to be\r\ncleared. Mental health experts have repeatedly warned that the longer children\r\nare kept in these situations, the more emotional damage occurs. Thus, our goal\r\nregarding unaccompanied minors must be to place these minors with appropriate\r\nsponsors as quickly as possible.  Today,\r\nthe Department of Health and Human Services announced with little fanfare that\r\nit was changing this damaging fingerprinting policy. I welcome today's\r\nannouncement. Sadly, this policy  now thankfully changed  is just one of the\r\nmany assaults on immigrants perpetrated by the Trump administration. We must\r\ncontinue to shine a light on Donald Trump's destructive immigration policies,\r\nand I will continue to do so.  ###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n    \n\t\n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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.hirono.senate.gov/news/press-releases/hirono-statement-on-trump-administrations-announcement-that-it-will-end-policy-that-lengthens-incarceration-of-unaccompanied-minors"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7811856232583523, "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"}