Bennie Thompson actually said...

Blocking the asylum process for vulnerable people and risking their lives by putting them in harm's way does not make us any safer; it just makes us less than the America we have held ourselves out to be.

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Thompson criticizes the impact of the Remain-in-Mexico policy on asylum seekers.

11/18/2019

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