Bennie Thompson

Like the Muslim ban, President Trump's proposed border wall will do little to better secure America's borders, but will cost Americans billions.

President Trump's words and actions related to the Southern Border and the government and people of Mexico have been counterproductive, to put it mildly.

We are writing to request that you hold a Full Committee hearing to examine President Trump's 'Muslim Ban' Executive Order.

While we recognize that the future of the 'Muslim Ban' is presently a question for the Federal Judiciary, we have an obligation, as co-equal constitutional partners to the Executive and Judicial branch, to do robust oversight of the…

The Department of Homeland Security has no matrix to show that border walls enhance security in a way that justifies their exorbitant cost.

We look forward to working with you to ensure that that a hearing is scheduled soon to receive testimony from Departmental officials, national and homeland security experts and the private sector.

Like the Muslim Ban, Trump's proposed 'border wall' will do little to better secure America's borders but will cost the Americans billions.

To the contrary, the Executive Order makes America less safe by serving as a recruitment and propaganda tool for terrorist groups.

Blocking the admission of green card holders, who are doctors, scientists, business owners, and other valued members of our society, does nothing to make us safer.

His Executive Order banning all travel from seven majority-Muslim countries and suspending our refugee program under the guise of security does nothing to make us safer.

I would note that the urgent border security crisis facing our Nation is not occurring at our Southern Border, but rather is one of President Trump's own making.

Instead, we need border security policy that keeps terrorists, their instruments, criminals, and contraband out of this country while upholding American values.

His Executive Order banning all travel from seven majority-Muslim countries and suspending our refugee program under the guise of security does nothing to make us safer.

The urgent border crisis facing our Nation is not occurring at our Southern Border, but rather is a one of President Trump's own making.

No amount of fear-mongering via Twitter or alternative facts will change the fact that on January 27, with a stroke of a pen, President Trump changed this Nation's standing both at home and abroad.

Congress must pass legislation that ends the shameful practice of treating the 42,000 members of the TSO workforce as second-class civil servants.

Congress should never have divided the TSA workforce into a group of management 'haves' with statutory rights under title 5 of the U.S. code, and the front-line TSO 'have nots' who do not.

AFGE has strongly supported the legislative efforts of Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D-MS) to bring much-needed reforms to the SPP.

I believe that this committee, particularly this subcommittee should work in a bipartisan fashion to achieve the shared goal of advancing TSA.

The Transportation Security Administration is essential to our Nation's security.

We have Members of Congress who suggest that we should profile entire communities.

There is a Presidential nominee who has chosen to call 11 million people rapists and murders and proposes Cold War ideological tests on Muslim visitors to this country.

I will say that having such a myopic approach to countering violent extremism is a disservice to the American people.

If you are too bad to get on a plane, then it is clear in the minds of a lot of people you ought to be too bad to own a gun.

It is time for us to rethink how we prevent terrorism.