Bennie Thompson actually said...

"I believe we are circumventing our international obligations, which are codified in U.S. law."

"I think our concern, more than anything else, is when you implement a policy that lowers your standard as a country, then that is changing the values of who we are as a country."

"I think we have to be mindful of that."

"We are a Nation of laws. We have values that we have to uphold."