Whether it is a wildlife products trafficking or human trafficking, drugs, or weapons, there are these evil transnational networks, and we need to take a stronger step to show that this country, which was founded on liberty, and which had one of its most definitional moments in the abolitionist fight against slavery, has this fight before us again.
Cardin emphasizes the need to combat modern slavery as a national challenge.
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There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.
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