Bennie Thompson: “I appreciate you calling this hearing. I appreciate our witnesses for their participation also.”

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

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.

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