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Johnny Isakson: “I go back to my State of Georgia and Atlanta, in particular, and we are ground zero for where a lot of those people are…”

On the recordJune 15, 2016
I go back to my State of Georgia and Atlanta, in particular, and we are ground zero for where a lot of those people are brought, thinking they are getting into America, but end up becoming sex slaves, drug traffickers, or worse, or domestic servants, or whatever they might be.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

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Isakson highlights Georgia's significant human trafficking issues.

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