Ms. JAYAPAL. Madam Speaker, for hours at Sea-Tac International
Airport on Saturday, I worked with colleagues from the Port of Seattle,
the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, the ACLU, and our Governor to
get people who were being held to be released because of President
Trump's Muslim ban. In the utter chaos, I found a gentleman who had come from Somalia to
be reunited with his wife. He had all of his legal papers; but,
instead, he was blindly turned away without any due process. We were
able to get two other individuals released--one from Yemen and one from
Sudan--after a brutal and determined effort to literally stop the plane
that they had been boarded onto in order for them to be deported. This wasn't just in Seattle, Madam Speaker. This happened at airports
across the Nation.
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