Tara, probably will use emotion as strategic rhetoric. This is because the history of immigrants is usually made up of difficulties and victories that they have spent in search of better living conditions in a country unknown to them.
By using this feature, Tara seeks to target common feeling, shared cultural values, or be structured to manipulate and elicit a direct emotional response, making the listener identify with the story of her parents.
Present perfect tense. Have washed is the verb, Have or Has is used to show an action that has taken place in the present, not quite long or is still taking place