Bennie Thompson: “While that has a cost associated with it, I think it is the risk of not doing it which you can't really put a finger on.”

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.

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.