{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senator-schmitt-blocks-democrats-attempt-to-continue-mass-migration-scheme/", "Senator Schmitt Blocks Democrats\u2019 Attempt to Continue Mass Migration Scheme", "2026-07-23", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Eric Schmitt", "S001227", "www.schmitt.senate.gov", "schmitt", "https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "Schmitt Called Out Democrats\u2019 Attempt to Continuously Extend \u201cTemporary\u201d Protected Status, Sell Out American Families and Workers\n\nU.S. SENATE \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) took to the Senate Floor to block Democrats\u2019 attempt to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States. Haitian migrants originally received TPS following the 2010 earthquake to allow migrants to remain in the United States for up to 18 months; TPS has since been extended nine times. The Supreme Court recently cleared the way for President Trump\u2019s termination of Haitian TPS. Senator Schmitt made clear that American workers and communities will no longer be forced to pay the price for Washington\u2019s sixteen-year lie that \u201ctemporary\u201d means permanent.\n\nWatch the senator\u2019s full speech here.\n\nExcerpts from Schmitt\u2019s remarks as prepared for delivery:\n\n\u201c\u2026Washington has invented a new definition of \u2018temporary\u2019: Permanent. Haitian TPS was supposed to last just 18 months when it began in 2010. Sixteen-years later\u2014350,000 Haitians are still here.\n\n\u201cToday\u2014after the Supreme Court cleared the way for President Trump to end TPS and send them home\u2014Democrats are trying to change the law to keep those 350,000 Haitians here permanently. Not on my watch\u2026\n\n\u201cThose supporting this bill have a message for the American people: Your vote does not matter. Your community does not matter. Your livelihood does not matter. They are trying to use Washington\u2019s oldest immigration trick: Call it temporary, extend it forever, and cash in on a new voter base. The American people voted to end the scam. Washington Democrats are voting to keep it alive\u2014and remind you who they think is really in charge.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cTPS was created for emergencies. Democrats have turned it into a one-way ratchet toward permanent mass immigration\u2026 That is the real purpose of the bill. Its supporters will wrap this bill in the language of compassion, but they never seem to have any compassion for the American worker competing against an ever-expanding labor supply. They have no compassion for families priced out of housing, workers whose wages are undercut, schools pushed beyond capacity, or communities forced to absorb decisions Washington made for them.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cMr. President, I have the power to stop this nonsense bill. And I\u2019m going to use it. So, I object to this bill which would keep 350,000 Haitians here permanently. I object to changing temporary to permanent. I object to flooding American communities with cheap foreign labor. I object to treating foreigners as the priority and Americans as an afterthought. I object to mass migration. Temporary must mean temporary. And elections must have consequences.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-24T07:30:11Z", "2026-07-24T07:31:13Z"]], "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.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senator-schmitt-blocks-democrats-attempt-to-continue-mass-migration-scheme/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6201677024364471, "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"}