{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=B3D820ED-B05D-481E-BF3E-4CB0F778338C", "Admin. Response To Border Crisis Failing To \u2018Historic And Catastrophic Degree\u2019", "2023-10-24", "2023", "2023-10", "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\u201cOver the weekend, the southern border crisis set a sobering new record. In the past year, CBP conducted more border apprehensions than in any year on record.\n\n\u201cOfficials reported more than 2.4 million apprehensions since last October. And this number doesn\u2019t even count the illegal entries that actually evaded authorities.\n\n\u201cMost alarmingly, this news isn\u2019t actually new. Last year was the third straight year to set an all-time record for border apprehensions.\n\n\u201cIn other words, every year that President Biden has been in charge of border security, his Administration hasn\u2019t simply failed.\n\n\u201cIt has failed to an historic and catastrophic degree.\n\n\u201cAmerica has had functionally open borders for years.\n\n\u201cAlong with millions of illegal aliens, we\u2019ve allowed Chinese fentanyl and other lethal drugs to literally pour into our country and kill tens of thousands of Americans every year.\n\n\u201cSo, Democrats\u2019 border crisis isn\u2019t new. What is new is their supposed desire to finally do something about it. Now that blue state mayors and governors are starting to feel the consequences of this catastrophic policy, the Biden Administration says it wants to take action.\n\n\u201cOf course, the Administration mostly just wants to throw money at the problem\u2026 and at its friends in local government. Apparently, the preferred response to a border crisis is a blue-state bailout.\n\n\u201cMeanwhile, a particularly dangerous consequence of the President\u2019s border crisis is making history of its own. In the past year, southern border apprehensions of individuals on the terror watch list broke an all-time record \u2013 a record that was just set just the year before.\n\n\u201cEven President Biden\u2019s Department of Homeland Security has admitted in its 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment that, \u2018record encounters of migrants arriving from a growing number of countries have complicated border and immigration security.\u2019\n\n\u201cThe American people have watched the Biden Administration spend their way into plenty of problems. But they haven\u2019t managed to spend their way out of a single one yet.\n\n\u201cOur country deserves real law enforcement and real borders. Border Security is national security.\n\n\u201cAnd on that front, the Senate has a lot of work to do.\u201d", 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.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=B3D820ED-B05D-481E-BF3E-4CB0F778338C"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6485070809721947, "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"}