Bennie Thompson: “I want to make it clear that Guantanamo Bay has served its purpose and must be closed.”

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.

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.