{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=4D90C4AE-7B4A-4528-9029-22402F2A6D3E", "Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Graham Advocates for Southern Border Policy Reforms", "2023-10-25", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Lindsey Graham", "G000359", "www.lgraham.senate.gov", "graham", "https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made these statements on the need for southern border policy reforms.\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cThe proposal by President Biden to secure our border has more to do with processing illegal immigrants than it does to turn them around. My goal is to come up with policies that will stop the flood of illegal immigration.\u201d https://youtu.be/pAlMEggCqs8? si=yXNxk1HiZmhLz-AQ&t=174\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cI will not go back to South Carolina and say we helped Israel, we helped Ukraine, but we did nothing meaningful on our own border. Our asylum system is being gamed. The parole system is being abused.\u201d https://youtu.be/pAlMEggCqs8? si=SR5iBpyTrTSWH14a&t=119\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cI can\u2019t stress to you enough, the broken border that has existed under the Biden Administration, along with the rise of radical Islam and Afghanistan and now Hamas is a cocktail for the American people to be viciously attacked. I have run out of patience. It is now time to change [our border] policy as part of a package to help our allies. It would be ironic to me that we helped Israel and Ukraine and did nothing on our own border that would change the trajectory of illegal immigration. Everything in the Biden proposal doesn\u2019t make anyone want to turn around. That\u2019s what I\u2019m seeking - to have people turn around!\u201d https://youtu.be/pAlMEggCqs8? si=pk1bl2dKDV1XVVEi&t=220\n\nClick here to watch Graham\u2019s full remarks\n\n###", 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.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=4D90C4AE-7B4A-4528-9029-22402F2A6D3E"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.091168960556388, "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"}