Bennie Thompson actually said...

Turning our backs on asylees would be turning our backs on who we are as a country.

Thompson argues for the importance of welcoming asylum seekers as part of American identity.

02/27/2023

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Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational, or socioeconomic background . . . The most effective means of identifying ...

This committee is setting a dangerous precedent in treating one religious group different than another.

The narrow scope of this hearing is discriminatory, and it is an abuse of power.

Restricting this hearing for the consideration of radicalization of American Muslims and not equally of other groups is wrong.