Bennie Thompson: “This is a National outcry and I believe many of these decisions are in your hands.”

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

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.

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

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.