Bennie Thompson: “We owe it to the American people to focus on all of the threats to the homeland, including those at the Southern Border.”

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

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.

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.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.