Elissa Slotkin tweeted the following:
"8/ Today, these men & women have spread out all over the U.S., including some who are now in Michigan. As an American whose ancestors left their home countries seeking a better life, I know that theres no telling what these resilient people will do with this opportunity."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Elissa Slotkin:
"6/ The effort to get these folks through the streets of Kabul, into the airport, onto a flight to safety and, finally, to the U.S., was a long, emotional & tumultuous saga. To see them snake through the lines at Dulles to be processed for their new visa status was overwhelming."Read on Twitter
"7/ As I told my team that morning, its not every day that you get to see something all the way through in government work. And its not every day that you get to greet the people on the receiving end of that work."Read on Twitter
"5/ They were some of the first Afghans who'd been evacuated to other countries to land in the U.S. As I hugged them as they stepped off the plane, it was hard not to think that they were going through the same experiences my own ancestors did at Ellis Island not so long ago."Read on Twitter
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