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Tom Lantos: To really keep children out of the fields, we must change the laws so that it's no longer legal for them to be there.

On the recordNovember 8, 1999
To really keep children out of the fields, we must change the laws so that it's no longer legal for them to be there.
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Tom Lantos
Source
congress.gov
Nov 8, 1999

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Advocating for legal reform to protect children from agricultural labor.

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