With the nation’s attention focused on the family separations happening on the U.S.-Mexico border, people have been eager to find ways to express outrage and to help as stories of detained toddlers, callous officials, and heartbreaking treatment continue to surface.

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is planning to channel that energy in a number of ways. Aside from the legislation she’s been working on with Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), she announced on June 19 that the Families Belong Together coalition is organizing event for June 30 in Lafayette Square, a park across the street from the White House. She told Teen Vogue there are already over 200 other events happening the same day across the country, with over 145,000 people already planning to participate.

“We feel like this is going to be huge because it is a huge issue with tremendous urgency and tremendous consequences, and we’re taking it to the White House,” she said. And despite Trump’s new executive order that he claims reverses the policy (but actually just provides a way for families to be detained together), Jayapal’s commitment to the issue isn’t easily derailed, and the protest is still on.

Earlier this month, as The Seattle Times reported, she met with 174 women, many of them asylum seekers and many of them separated from their children, who had been transferred to a Seattle-Tacoma area federal facility near her district.

“They talked about having children as young as one year old and not knowing where their children have been,” Jayapal explained. “Being able to hear their children screaming, but not being able to go to them, not even being able to say goodbye. There is no legal policy or moral defense of that.” Jayapal said one of the mothers she met told her she was only 19.

The moral issue has a personal side for Jayapal, who is an immigrant herself. The first Indian-American woman in Congress said coming to the U.S. by herself at 16 shaped how she views immigration policy today.

“When my parents sent me, they had $5,000 in their bank account,” she explained, saying they used all of it send her here to pursue opportunities and her education. It wasn’t easy: “I know that I felt it was difficult. You come to a brand-new country, and you kind of have to make your way.” Having a child of her own helped her see what it might’ve been like for her parents, too.