Elissa Slotkin tweeted the following:
"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
Here are other recent tweets from Elissa Slotkin:
"4/ So when we finally heard the date theyd be arriving, I knew we had to be there as they stepped off the plane to start this new chapter. In late March, I joined a few of my staffers, a group from @SpiritAmerica & staff from the @michiganstateu GRAIN program to do just that."Read on Twitter
"3/ In the months since the fall of Afghanistan, this group had become an important part of our teams work. My staff & I felt a responsibility to make sure they arrived safely in the U.S. after everything they had sacrificed on behalf of our country & our mission in Afghanistan."Read on Twitter
"Over the last few days, Ive been retelling the story of how our team managed to get 114 Afghans safely out of Kabul last August. Today I want to talk about what it was like to finally welcome them onto U.S. soil so they could begin their new lives. 1/ detroitnews.com/story/news/pol"Read on Twitter
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