A group of Democratic congressional representatives visited two federal detention centers in Louisiana to meet with Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, who are both at risk of being removed from the United States.

The delegation, which included Rep. Troy Carter from Louisiana, Rep. Bennie Thompson from Mississippi, and Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Jim McGovern, and Sen. Ed Markey from Massachusetts, first visited a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Jena to see Khalil. They then traveled to Basile to meet with Öztürk, as reported by CNN.

Both Khalil and Öztürk were detained by federal authorities last month and are now facing deportation under the Trump administration’s argument that they pose a threat to national security.

Khalil, who recently completed graduate studies at Columbia University, and Öztürk, a Tufts University PhD student, have both expressed anti-Israel views amid the Jewish state’s war in Gaza against Hamas.

“I’m here to check on her and to let Rümeysa and Mahmoud — who we’ll also be visiting, I hope I’ll have the opportunity to speak with them both,” Pressley said in a video posted on social media Tuesday.

“I want them to know that we have not forgotten about them — that we are fighting for them, we are fighting for their justice, that we are fighting for their freedom.”

Markey, in a social media video, said he met with Khalil and called for his freedom.

“The Trump administration is citing a foreign policy threat against Khalil, which are baseless and illegitimate,” he said.

Lawmakers said they entered both facilities to inspect their conditions.

The trip is the first time members of Congress have visited either Khalil or Öztürk, CNN reported.

The visits come a week after Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to see El Salvador national and accused MS-13 gang member, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in the Central American nation.

An immigration judge in Louisiana has ruled Khalil, 30, who is a legal permanent resident married to a US citizen, can be deported, but it’s unclear if or when that would happen since his legal team has the chance to appeal.

His wife gave birth to their first child on Monday.

Meanwhile, a federal judge ordered the feds to move Öztürk, 30, who is a Turkish national, to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing. She was picked up by immigration officers as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville.  

Carter, the Louisiana rep, said in a press briefing after the visits that both Khalil and Öztürk are frightened and concerned.

“They want to go home,” he said.