{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=3C078854-9CCC-4FA4-9A31-5E5E737CBC4C", "Democrats Throw Money At Border Crisis, While Republicans Focus On Policy Solutions", "2023-11-01", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the southern border crisis:\n\n\u201cAs I mentioned last week, illegal crossings at our southern border are setting all-time records.\n\n\u201cIn just three years under the Biden Administration, CBP has recorded six million border encounters. Six million.\n\n\u201cAnd yet, in the face of these astounding statistics, the Secretary of Homeland Security continues to say that, \u2018our approach to managing the border... is working.\u2019\n\n\u201cThe White House Press Secretary has reiterated this insanity, saying, \u2018it\u2019s not like someone walks over [the border]\u2026 That\u2019s not how it works.\u2019\n\n\u201cOf course, we know that\u2019s exactly how it works. The border patrol has been tracking 1,000 known gotaways per day!\n\n\u201cThe facts on the ground send a clear message: the Biden Administration\u2019s handling of the border crisis is a complete and utter failure.\n\n\u201cYesterday, Senator Cruz and Senator Barrasso both shared an encounter they witnessed on the border over the weekend of a 10-year-old girl and a man claiming to be her father. They described the terror on the girl\u2019s face as a man attempted to use the Biden Administration\u2019s family-unit loophole to cut the line at the border.\n\n\u201cAs Senator Cruz put it, \u2018the cartels are renting children to grown men.\u2019\n\n\u201cThe crisis that\u2019s unfolded on President Biden\u2019s watch is inhumane and dangerous. Fiscal Year 2022 was the deadliest year on record at the southern border, and FY 2023 set an all-time record for terror watch list encounters.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re watching a humanitarian crisis that\u2019s become a glaring national security vulnerability.\n\n\u201cAnd the solution here is pretty clear.\n\n\u201cThe solution isn\u2019t billions of dollars to make it easier and faster to process illegal migrants, or \u2018money for a welcome wagon\u2019 as Senator Barrasso put it yesterday.\n\n\u201cThe solution is a clear and commonsense policy that forces the Biden Administration to enforce the law and treat the border with the legal consequences it demands.\n\n\u201cSo I\u2019m grateful to my Republican colleagues who are working hard on a policy proposal to deliver actual border security, and drawing on ideas put forward by Senator Lankford, Senator Cruz, Senator Grassley, and others.\n\n\u201cWashington Democrats have proved that their border security approach is not working. President Biden\u2019s Border Supplemental request is more of the same.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to wake up and embrace policy changes that will keep Americans safe.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:49:58Z"]], "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.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=3C078854-9CCC-4FA4-9A31-5E5E737CBC4C"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7321271114051342, "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"}