Bennie Thompson: “I think the committee believes that we have that authority, and we felt comfortable enough that now was the time to do…”

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

Whether it's the Capitol on January 6 or Los Angeles this weekend, it's clear Trump is totally fine with lighting the match to stoke violence if he thinks it'll help him politically.

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.