Bennie Thompson: “Our energies will be wasted and our opportunities will be squandered if we do not work towards the goal of making the…”

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

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.

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.

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.