Bennie Thompson: “I want us to--if we are going to talk about private property rights, let's keep it in the private property rights arena.”

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

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

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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.