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.
Thompson criticizes the impact of the Remain-in-Mexico policy on asylum seekers.
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Essentially turning them into 'jails,' which the Mississippi Democrat says would constitute a misuse of the facilities.
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.
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