{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.smith.senate.gov/u-s-senator-tina-smith-calls-on-trump-administration-to-end-operation-metro-surge-in-twin-cities/", "U.S. Senator Tina Smith Calls on Trump Administration to End \u201cOperation Metro Surge\u201d in Twin Cities", "2025-12-15", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "MN", "Tina Smith", "S001203", "www.smith.senate.gov", "tinasmith", "https://www.smith.senate.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) released the following statement:\n\n\u201cI believe in protecting public safety and upholding the rule of law. \u2018Operation Metro Surge\u2019 is actively undermining both. There has been none of the necessary cooperation and trust between federal officials and local government, and zero transparency from the Trump Administration into ICE\u2019s operations in the Twin Cities. Minnesotans are seeing their friends and neighbors, including U.S. citizens with no criminal records, abducted by masked agents, shoved to the ground, and sprayed with mace. The fear and violence that President Trump has unleashed on our home is destroying any sense of public safety. The Administration needs to put an immediate end to \u2018Operation Metro Surge\u2019.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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.smith.senate.gov/u-s-senator-tina-smith-calls-on-trump-administration-to-end-operation-metro-surge-in-twin-cities/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.691865898668766, "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"}