Bennie Thompson: “We should not reinvent the wheel every time there is a crisis, and we should not put biodefense on the back burner…”

This unlawful policy is a smokescreen to deny Member visits to ICE offices across the country, which are holding migrants – and sometimes even U.S. citizens – for days at a time.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

At a time when DHS is rightly warning about an elevated threat environment from terrorists and cartels, we should be focused on plugging security gaps rather than senselessly creating new ones.

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