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On the recordSeptember 13, 2011
As a parent and a grandparent, when I look at the ages of some of these people and the vulnerability of them, and even the adults, the fact that they are so totally vulnerable, they are treated as chattel, not as human beings, in 2011--I mean, this is horrible.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy expresses deep concern over the treatment of vulnerable individuals in trafficking cases.

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