President Donald Trump is set to deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, before a joint session of Congress.
Lawmakers are allowed to invite guests to join them and many use their invitees to make political statements.
For this particular State of the Union, several Democratic lawmakers in the Senate and House have invited guests who are personally affected by the immigration debate, the #MeToo movement and other related topics. Similarly, Republican lawmakers have also picked guests that reflect the immigration debate and in show their support for law enforcement.
Here’s a look at guests lawmakers have invited to the State of the Union:
Immigration
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois: Cesar Montelongo, the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program student enrolled in the MD-PhD program at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicin
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California: Denea Joseph, a DACA recipient
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon: Leonardo Reyes, a DACA recipient
Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Florida: Adrian Escarate, a DACA recipient
Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan: Cindy Garcia, whose husband Jorge Garcia, a 39-year-old father of two, was deported to Mexico after living in the United States for 30 years
Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kansas: Sunayana Dumala, the widow of Srinivas Kuchibhotla. Kuchibhotla was an Indian immigrant who was killed in a bar shooting in Olathe, Kansas, last year
Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois: State Senator Kwame Raoul, a first generation Haitian-American
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-New Jersey: Esder Chong, a DACA recipient
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York: Diego de la Vega, an intern in her New York district office and a DACA recipient
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Massachusetts: Edenilson Granados, a father and Salvadoran immigrant with Temporary Protected Status
Rep. Nita Lowey, D-New York: Acosta Mazariego, a DACA recipient
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Kentucky: Leo Salinas Chacón, a DACA recipient
Military
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia: Military spouse and entrepreneur Lakesha Cole
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia: Cadet Simone Askew, the first African-American woman to hold the highest student position at the United States Military Academy at West Point
Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Massachusetts: US Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King, a transgender soldier
Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Illinois: Naval Academy Midshipman Alex Vandenberg
#MeToo
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey: Patricia Teffenhart, executive director of the NJ Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA)
Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-New Hampshire: Chessy Prout, a sexual assault survivor at St. Paul’s boarding school
Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Illinois: Erin Walton, executive director of Rape Victim Advocates
Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Michigan: Author and historian Danielle McGuire who researched and wrote about Recy Taylor
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-Michigan: Either Recy Taylor’s brother, Robert Corbett, or Taylor’s niece, Rose Gunter
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-California: Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center
Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts: Anny Gonzalez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who faced sexual harassment at her job cleaning passenger planes
Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Florida: Laura Germino, co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) who developed a program to help stop sexual harassment of farmworkers
Hurricane aid
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz
Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Florida: Emmanuel Ortiz-Nazario, a 30-year-old from Puerto Rico who relocated with his wife and two young children to central Florida after Hurricane Maria
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska: Nebraska State Patrol Trooper John Lewis, who helped families affected by Hurricane Irma
Health care
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee: Peter Rosenberger, a man whose family has been affected by the health care system
Infrastructure
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin: Avery Smith, a heavy equipment operator from Little Suamico, Wisconsin
Tax reform
Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana: Chelsee Hatfield and Gene Miles on behalf of First Farmers Bank & Trust to demonstrate the benefits of tax reform in Indiana
Miscellaneous
Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut: Jay McDonald, President of the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police and National Vice President of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), and Theresa Leonard, a survivor of child sex-trafficking
Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Illinois: Sarah Miller, who reached out to Bustos for help when news broke that Galesburg had exceeded the federal “action level” in ongoing EPA tests for lead content in water
Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas: Charmion Polk, a retired Fort Worth teacher who self-funded a nonprofit teaching low-income children black history
This story will be updated with developments throughout the day.
CNN’s Deirdre Walsh, MJ Lee, Tal Kopan and Ashley Killough contributed to this report.