Bennie Thompson: “Who has the right to close? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Mississippi has the right to close.”

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.

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.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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