Bennie Thompson actually said...

"We must be clear. Though systematic challenges with detention conditions, due process and family screening protocols have been persistent over many years, the Trump administration is unique."

"No other administration has carried out a policy that deliberately separates migrant families--in some instances by default--when they reach the border at the scale we have seen over the past 2 years."

"Real oversight of this family separation policy and how DHS and CBP are currently treating asylum-seeking families and children is long overdue."

"As Americans, we are a Nation of laws. Our value system says that we should take care of people."