Bennie Thompson: “Statement for the Record submitted by Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson”

The department was using 'flat out wrong anti-union talking points.'

If ICE has nothing to hide, DHS must make its facilities available.

There you have it. House Republicans have an hour to debate a nonbinding symbolic resolution but not even a few seconds to do the job that would actually pay our DHS workers. This is the Republican DHS shutdown.

Essentially turning them into 'jails,' which the Mississippi Democrat says would constitute a misuse of the facilities.