{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-on-ktar-kelly-calls-out-trump-for-targeting-military-families-business-owners-for-deportation-instead-of-criminals/", "ICYMI:\u00a0On KTAR, Kelly Calls Out Trump\u00a0for Targeting Military Families, Business Owners\u00a0for Deportation\u00a0Instead of Criminals", "2026-08-24", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Mark Kelly", "K000377", "www.kelly.senate.gov", "markkelly", "https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "In case you missed it, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly joined KTAR\u2019s Heidi Hommel to call out the Trump administration\u2019s reckless immigration enforcement, which is targeting military families, law-abiding business owners, and community members instead of the criminals Trump promised to go after.\n\nKelly has helped secure the release of Arizonans wrongfully detained, including Annie Ramos, the newlywed wife of a U.S. soldier who was detained on base; Maria Pelaez, the mother of an active U.S. Marine Kelly met with while she was held in ICE detention in Arizona; and Kelly Yu, a Phoenix restaurant owner with three businesses and seventy employees whom he also met in detention. Most recently, Kelly assisted in the release of Maisa Lopes Eliaser, the wife of an Army soldier.\n\nSen. Kelly speaks to KTAR\u2019s Heidi Hommel.\n\nWatch to the full interview here. See key excerpts below:\n\nOn Trump going aftermilitary families and business owners instead of criminals\u2026\n\n\u201cThe President said he was going to track down criminals, gang members, drug dealers who are undocumented and deport them. The person you mentioned, spouse of a servicemember deported to Colombia. Not in that category. Same thing with Kelly Yu. Same thing with Maria, the mom of a Marine. They\u2019re just going after people just to jack up numbers because he wants the deportation number to be higher.\n\n\u201cThat doesn\u2019t make us a better country. Tearing communities apart, taking a grandmother away from the grandchildren of a Marine. A woman here in Phoenix who has three businesses and seventy employees. Does it make us a better country to deport her? No.\u201d\n\nOn ICE terrorizing communities and violating constitutional rights\u2026\n\n\u201cWe need to get this right. And ICE has to stop terrorizing communities. We have people that have been killed in the streets because of how aggressive they\u2019ve been on immigration enforcement, and it\u2019s not right, and they\u2019re violating people\u2019s constitutional rights. We\u2019ve seen this over and over and over again.\u201d", 1, "2026-08-25T05:31:37Z", "2026-08-25T05:33:09Z"]], "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.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-on-ktar-kelly-calls-out-trump-for-targeting-military-families-business-owners-for-deportation-instead-of-criminals/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9688800200819969, "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"}