In recent days, staffers also frantically worked to help those still in Afghanistan, calling legislators and the State Department to help Illinois residents or family members get to the Kabul airport and safely out of the country. Chicago volunteers from RefugeeOne also traveled to a Virginia military base to help process arriving refugees. Schakowsky said she helped submit 100 cases to try and get people out of Afghanistan and to Illinois, and as of Monday knew of only two families who had left.
