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On the recordMarch 19, 2014
I think we have to really reinvent the challenge that runaways--how they fit into this whole circumstance.
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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia
Democratic · Texas

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Garcia suggests reevaluating how runaways are addressed in trafficking.

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