Bennie Thompson: “At worst, it is a shameful attempt to whitewash and deflect attention from inaction on gun violence and a threat posed…”

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.

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.

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

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