{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.welch.senate.gov/welch-conducts-ice-oversight-visit-at-northwest-state-correctional-facility-in-saint-albans-meets-with-people-detained-by-ice/", "Welch Conducts ICE Oversight Visit at Northwest State Correctional Facility in Saint Albans; Meets with People Detained by ICE", "2026-09-18", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "VT", "Peter Welch", "W000800", "www.welch.senate.gov", "welch", "https://www.welch.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Welch: \u201cThis is so wrong, and so cruel.\u201d\n\nSAINT ALBANS\u2014U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today visited people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Saint Albans. The Senator met with five people in detention.\n\nAfter, Senator Welch posted a video discussing oversight of ICE and President Trump\u2019s illegal mass deportation, anti-immigrant agenda:\n\nVideo Transcript:\n\n\u201cI\u2019m at the Northwest Correctional Center, and I came here to visit people who were picked up by ICE.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s pretty shocking. I met five people, two of whom worked on farms, one of whom was there 16 years. Another was a roofer. Another was driving a truck for Lowe\u2019s. And another also was working on a farm. Absolutely no criminal convictions among the five. Every single one has a family. Every single one was picked up suddenly at work or out getting lunch. And some were picked up when they were reporting to ICE, because they had legal status to be here.\n\n\u201cThis is so wrong, and so cruel. This mass roundup that is just something that the Trump administration won\u2019t stop, has to stop. These are good people that are here\u2014working people, with families, making a contribution to our farms and to our community, to construction of the housing that we need.\n\n\u201cSo I\u2019m going to continue to fight against this rampant, mass roundup of people. It makes no sense. We need an immigration policy that is fair and humane.\u201d\n\nThis afternoon, Senator Welch convened immigration leaders and advocates from across Vermont to discuss ICE\u2019s recent raids in Vermont and his strong opposition to the Trump Administration\u2019s violent and brutal immigration policies.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-24T10:30:22Z", "2026-09-24T10:31:42Z"]], "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.welch.senate.gov/welch-conducts-ice-oversight-visit-at-northwest-state-correctional-facility-in-saint-albans-meets-with-people-detained-by-ice/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.678149051964283, "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"}