U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva said she won't attend President Donald Trump's Feb. 24 State of the Union speech.
Instead, the Tucson Democrat will give her passes to U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, so Omar can bring family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in January.
A photo of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in January. U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva said she won't attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Feb. 24, but will give her passes instead to a Minnesota representative to bring members of Good's family.
Grijalva, a first-term member of Congress, announced her State of the Union decision Wednesday, when speaking to reporters after conducting an oversight visit at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in Eloy.
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Arizona, has also announced she won't attend the State of the Union.
Instead, Ansari will attend a counter-protest event accompanied by Sonia Almaraz, the long-time partner of a medically vulnerable woman in detention at Eloy, a news release from Ansari's office said.
That detainee, Arbella "Yari" Rodriguez Marquez, has leukemia.
U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva speaks after an oversight visit Wednesday to an immigration detention facility in Eloy.
