Bennie Thompson: “I want to send my condolences to the families affected by last week's tragic terrorist attack in New York City.”

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

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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.

This unlawful policy is a smokescreen to deny Member visits to ICE offices across the country, which are holding migrants – and sometimes even U.S. citizens – for days at a time.