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Veronica Escobar: Obviously when you cut off legal pathways... immigrants and refugees will seek irregular pathways making them vulnerable…

On the recordApril 26, 2022
Obviously when you cut off legal pathways... immigrants and refugees will seek irregular pathways making them vulnerable to human traffickers.
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Veronica Escobar
Democratic · Texas

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Escobar discusses the consequences of obstructing immigration reform on human trafficking.

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