Human Trafficking And The United States

“Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, and the transport of people within countries for sexual exploitation, forced labor, and/or organ donating.” (Gale) “Slavery is the condition in which one or more persons is owned as property by another and is under the owner’s control.” (American Heritage Dictionary) Trafficked people who are often regarded as disposable, are often used for these various reasons. Although, many believe slavery ended with the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery still exists in 2017. In order to understand that human trafficking is a form of slavery, one needs to examine what it is, the effects, and the solutions.

Human Trafficking is in America, it’s in backyard and most don’t even know it. Many Americans believe that this horrible action only takes place in countries such as China, Japan, India, and Ghana but no; it happens in the United States also. The definition of human trafficking is the “illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation” (dictionary.com). Slavery was abolished in 1865 in the 13th amendment in the constitution but it sad to say, it still exist. “60,000 people in America in November 2013 could safely be called modern day slaves” (Slavery isn’t a thing of the past). Today human trafficking is counted as immigrant workers who are smuggled into the country and forced to work under the threat of violence. And also men and women, forced to sell their bodies for sex and give all their money to their pimps (Slavery isn’t a thing of the past). Pimps are the ones who usually run the human trafficking business. Approximately75-80% of human trafficking is for sex (55 little known facts about human trafficking). Many believe that only adults are being worked but children and teens are too, matter of fact the average age is between12 and 14. The number of human trafficking in the United States will continue to increase because it is too difficult to find and prevent.

The United States has always been known for sticking their nose in places where it does not belong. America has been part of wars that could have been avoided, scandals that had nothing to do with the United States. Millions of lives over the years could have been spared if America would have just simply stayed where they belong. What if though, America feels like they have to get involved in forging affairs if they think it can cause or is causing a problem on American soil or with the Americans themselves? Human trafficking is issues that most people do not necessarily knows about or even really think about. There are several different types of human trafficking and smuggling crimes that are in today's society. The number one kind of human trafficking is sex trafficking. The handlers usually kidnap someone, ninety percent of the time, a girl under the age of eighteen, and sell them to different people all over the world for sexual reasons. The girls they kidnap and sell can be from the area or just passing through and get in the wrong place at the wrong time. Forced labor is the second most common type of human trafficking in the world. This is where a person takes advantage of a worker and changes labor laws to make them work longer hours or harder, more tiring jobs with very little pay. Victims of forced labor most of the time do not even know what is happening to them. Most of the people that get sucked into the forced labor trade are very vulnerable;

Human trafficking doesn’t happen in third world countries only. It doesn’t just happen to poor people and it certainly doesn’t solely happen to women. It is present here in the USA but it is hidden, and even worse, so are their victims. They are everywhere yet invisible. They are silently crying for our help through their eyes and smiles. According to Polaris, “…the prevalence of sex trafficking in the United States is still unknown, we do know that women, children, and men are being sold for sex against their will in cities and towns in all 50 states”. Human trafficking can happen to anyone even to Theresa Flores, the author of “The slave across the street”(“Sex trafficking” 2015). An average 15 year old American girl, coming from a privileged background and a respected family became a victim of sex trafficking and through her book, she convinces us that human trafficking doesn’t have a specific demographic.

Human trafficking has always been a though subject. Most Americans prefer to believe that this is a problem of the past, that it simply does not occur anymore. Others accept the fact that human trafficking exist, but in a far away reality, an incident homed only in poor, third world countries. This couldn’t be farther away from the truth. Human trafficking is a real and current problem in the United States, California being a hotspot for this issue, and with the Super Bowl in 2016 the problem will only get worse.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they.

A serious crime that virtually affects every country in the world is human trafficking. Human trafficking is a multi-national criminal business that’s roots are tied into “trans-criminal organizations, small criminal networks and local gangs, violations of labor and immigration codes, and government corruption” (Richard, 1999; U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2006.). Typically human trafficking has been defined as trading women and children for prostitution. As of late, trafficking has grown to include other types of force, fraud, or coercion, beyond sexual exploitation (USDHHS, pg. 3). The United States Congress has defined human trafficking into

The UN said human trafficking makes 32 million dollars a year. (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) That huge number means that human trafficking is now a multimillion dollar industry. This statistic should be frightening for many different reasons. Not only has it been going on for centuries, it’s not even slowing down. If anything human trafficking is growing and the number of children being trafficked is also significantly growing. Human trafficking is a worldwide problem and until we bring this problem into the light, it will continue to grow and happen right under our nose.

Human trafficking is becoming more prevalent in all nations whether it is for forced labor, organ distribution, or sexual exploitation and it is now time for us, as Americans, to step up our game and really put forth effort into combating human trafficking, especially in our home country. Human trafficking has been on the rise for the last few years and is increasing rapidly due to various factors. Typically, when human trafficking is mentioned, the first thought is that only sex trafficking is being discussed, however, human trafficking trafficking is a broad term that can include labor, organ, or sex trafficking. The common thread in each type of trafficking is that the victims in each category are lured into the work through force, fraud,

What is human trafficking? According to Mark Lagon, CEO of the anti-human trafficking “human trafficking is the element of gross exploitation and control over an individual. In simpler terms it is the slavery of our time. Even thou slavery ended years ago we are now facing a new form of slavery. Strip clubs and massage parlors are being used as disguise to hide what is really going. Although the sex is the top reason for human traffickers, employment, the desire to have children, are other

There are more slaves in the world today than there were when Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s called Human Trafficking. A couple of years ago, there was a trafficking bust in Kansas City, where a man was trafficking his 14 year old stepdaughter, in the basement of sex shops. Thirty to Forty men would come every night to rape his daughter.(1) Human trafficking is a crime in almost every corner of the world. Now the question is, how can we stop it?

There are different types of human trafficking namely, not exhaustively: Sex Trafficking which involves adult engaging in a commercial sex act such as prostitution, because of duress or false financial promises which virtually turns out to be

Last year, instances of human trafficking had been reported in all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C. (Palmiotto 4). There have been 30,000 cases of human trafficking in the United States since 2007, with the number of cases steadily growing each year. Additionally, there is anywhere from 14,500, to 17,500 people that are trafficked into the U.S. each year. Despite this, according to a 2012 study by the Urban Institute, all across America there are local police departments who do not believe that this is even a problem in the community. People do not realize that although the United States is a developed nation, and that we are past the age of chattel slavery individuals are still becoming slaves to the human trafficking business; it generates a profit of $32 billion every year. The only way the U.S. can aid the united fight against human trafficking is if we put our local communities in a position to combat human trafficking through training local and state enforcement agencies and personnel to both recognize the indications of human trafficking and communicate and collaborate with nonprofit groups and social services, nonprofit agencies, and medical providers.

Human trafficking is defined as the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. People often think that women are the only ones being trafficked, however it happens to children, men and women. Human trafficking takes place within a country or across borders. People

Human trafficking is roughly defined as the act of taking a person either against their will or by deception, then the exploitation of this person for the financial gain of the person they are working for. Essentially, it’s kidnapping and enslaving a person for money. Human trafficking is roughly a one hundred and fifty billion dollar industry (Human Rights First) and it’s still quietly growing each year (City Vision University). Due to the nature of the crime it is hard to keep statistics regarding the victims, but it is estimated that there are about twenty million slaves in the world today. Hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked across borders each year to be sold to criminals who exploit them for