Bennie Thompson: “To the Chairman's comment about the consolidation of the grants program, you talk about stakeholder involvement.”

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.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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.

If ICE has nothing to hide, DHS must make its facilities available.