{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=425BF072-8A79-452C-8274-DC81AA159A7C", "Graham Pushes President Biden to Call 'Time Out' on Asylum Claims Made in the United States", "2021-09-22", "2021", "2021-09", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Lindsey Graham", "G000359", "www.lgraham.senate.gov", "graham", "https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today called on the Biden Administration to call a \u2018time-out\u2019 and stop processing asylum claims made in the United States. Graham has pushed for asylum claims to be filed in the asylum seekers' home country, another Northern Triangle country or one contiguous, or in Mexico before being allowed into the United States.\n\n\u201cEvery time I see the images coming from our southern border I get infuriated.\n\n\u201cThe human suffering. The national security threats. The out-of-control nature of this run on the border needs to stop.\n\n\u201cIf the Biden Administration called a \u2018Time Out\u2019 on asylum claims made in the United States \u2013 where people are released and never show up to their hearings \u2013 this flow would stop overnight.\n\n\u201cThe only way to stop the flow of migrants is to change our asylum laws that are being abused. It is past time for the Biden Administration to show some leadership.\u201d\n\n####\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nGraham Discusses Asylum Claim Abuse", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:17:01Z"]], "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.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=425BF072-8A79-452C-8274-DC81AA159A7C"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6321227885782719, "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"}