Elissa Slotkin tweeted the following:
"13/ I would meet them in Albania a few months later, while the amazing team at @SpiritAmerica cared for them in their time of need. spiritofamerica.org/blog/a-new-hom"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Elissa Slotkin:
"12/ Five hours after the Prime Minister signed off, the Foreign Minister met the plane at the airport in Tirana. Most of the Afghans had barely heard of Albania when the landed there - exhausted to start the second chapter of the story."Read on Twitter
"11/ Amazingly, @USAmbAlbania Yuri Kim and I worked on Iraq together over a decade ago, and I reached out to her. We formally asked Prime Minister @ediramaal & Foreign Minister @xhacka_olta of Albania to accept out Afghans, and give them safe harbor."Read on Twitter
"9/ So why did this group end up Albania? Frankly, kismet. When I couldnt confirm that I could get them out on a military plane, we bartered with other remarkable groups to get a charter plane to take them out."Read on Twitter
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