House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading a congressional delegation to Central America, and ending the trip where so many Central American migrants end up: Texas. The 13-member delegation will visit Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, meeting with “representatives from government, the judiciary, civil society, community and faith-based groups, the private sector and human rights organizations” to “renew our commitment to advancing our shared interests and to helping empower the people of the Northern Triangle to build a better future at home” and recognize “the enormous contributions that generations of immigrants from the region have made to the United States.”
The delegation will then go to McAllen, Texas, to meet with asylum-seekers and see the latest abuses the Trump administration is inflicting on them. “Many members of the delegation have made several visits to the border, where they have been heartbroken by the horrific situation,” Pelosi said in the statement announcing the delegation. “House Democrats will constantly visit the border to demand that conditions are improved to reflect American values and to respect the dignity of every person.”
Unless you’re from American Samoa, don’t expect to find your Republican representative on this trip. Pelosi will be accompanied by Democratic Reps. Eliot Engel, Nydia Velázquez, Jim McGovern, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Henry Cuellar, Norma Torres, Anthony Brown, Mary Gay Scanlon, Jesús “Chuy” García, Katie Hill, and Lauren Underwood, as well as Republican Del. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen.