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They are still among the most common nationalities referred to the National Referral Mechanism as potential modern day slaves.

The package contains 15 bills in what caucus members said will be a multiyear effort to repair the generational harms and discrimination suffered by the descendants of slaves in California.

One former fruit picker told the BBC more must be done to protect migrants from being treated like slaves.

More than 6,000 women and children were taken captive and held as slaves.

"For example, some involved slaves and former slaves, some did not. History is complicated," he says.