Bennie Thompson: “Anything less than his full cooperation further enables the erosion of our Constitution, our democratic institutions…”

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.

That kind of talent, you just don't find it every day.

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