Karen Attiah
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405 appearances
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 19 Nov
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And I think
And it's an incredibly distressing place to be in our democracy.
And, you know, they've passed a bill to basically eliminate his district.
I have constituents who know that I'm approachable, and so when Mimi's good friend Jackie Merlos was taken into custody with her four U.S.
citizen children and her mother, who was here on a
valid visiting visa from honduras a friend of a friend called me and said what can you do to help they had been disappeared they had been lost for 12 days and my staff immediately dug into trying to get every bit of information we could
And we literally got in the car in Portland, Oregon, and started driving north, not knowing if Jackie and the kids were in Tacoma at the ICE detention facility in Seattle at their processing center or...
up near the border in CBP custody and we were getting contradictory information we weren't being given any straight answers run around all over the place and we eventually found them in Ferndale Washington in a Customs and Border Protection facility in basically a 10 by 10 windowless cell except for the soundproof window that the guards could look in with her four children
It was the most devastating thing, but I didn't even know they were there until hours after we arrived.
No, because our staff here in D.C.
was literally trying to get in touch with ICE, and Representative Jayapal's team was helping us try to track.
It was an all-hands-on-deck sort of moment where all teams were trying to get to information.
And just to make it clear, if Jackie's community didn't know that they could reach out to me, they would have been disappeared and flown out of the country.
These are four U.S.
citizen children.
And when I was at the Customs and Border Protection facility, we were told that she was human trafficking and that they were thinking about charging her and that she had signed a voluntary departure document.
Yeah, and it's a crazy story.
They were at Peace Arch Park to see her sister, who is a permanent legal resident of Canada, and her children, so that their mother, Juana, the grandmother of all these kids, could have a reunion, which they've done before.
In March, they did the same thing.
And it was when they were hugging that the sister, who is in Canada...
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