Bennie Thompson actually said...

"I think our concern, more than anything else, is when you implement a policy that lowers your standard as a country, then that is changing the values of who we are as a country."

"I think we have to be mindful of that."

"We are a Nation of laws. We have values that we have to uphold."

"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..."