Summary: The Role Of Trafficking In The United States

Human trafficking is a prominent problem within the United States that is often overlooked. The definition of human trafficking is, “Human trafficking - the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation” (“Human trafficking”). People in the United States believe that human trafficking is a problem that occurs in other less developed countries compared to the United States. What these individuals do not realize is that human trafficking occurs on American soil contrary to popular belief. The United States is one of the top three destination countries of human trafficking and human trafficking is a top criminal enterprise across the world (“WEAVE, Inc.”).

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;

Each year about 17,500 individuals are brought into the United States and become victims of human trafficking. Every country has this problem and it has become the 3rd largest illegal industry worldwide.

I analyzed human trafficking in two different locations of the United States, one being California, and another being Florida. My main reason for choosing the two was because both states have been actively participating in working on helping the police, and prosecutors identify and prosecute trafficking. In California local police have been able to “identify 1,277 victims, initiated 2,552 investigations, and arrested 1,798 individuals” in regards to human trafficking cases (California Justice Department). In California we have our own legal definition to help us identify trafficking through the passing of AB 22 in 2005. California defines human trafficking as “all acts involved in the recruitment, abduction, transport, harboring, transfer, sale or receipt of persons, within national or across international borders, through force, coercion, fraud or deception, to place persons in situations of slavery or slavery-like conditions, forced labor or services, such as prostitution or sexual services,

Every Year millions of immigrants get deported back to their countries.They try to come to the US to have a better life and have a great job.We can't judge other people.

Human trafficking has been in existence in several states for many years. It is a form of slavery where people can be transported from one place to another for exploitation in farms, being forced into criminal activities such as terrorism, forced marriages, sexual abuse, prostitution among other forms of illicit activities (Butler, 2015). The trafficked individuals are often oppressed through violence, threats or coercion which forces the individuals to be involved in various things which they could not be willing to conduct. Majorly, members of the African continent have been widely bound to human trafficking. However, the ordeal has expanded even to trafficking within members of the same state.

Up until last semester, I truly had no idea of the magnitude of human trafficking in the United States. Living in the Bible belt, we tend to be sheltered and naive to the corruptions of the world. Last semester, I was required to do some research regarding human trafficking I was appalled at my findings. I even had my husband read an article to bring him insight and awareness. I know Ashton Kutcher is a huge advocate for human trafficking awareness and trying to put an end to this heinous crime. I am aware of the Tennessee website for human trafficking. I received training in identifying human trafficking in the health care setting through my education, here at King University. If I am recalling correctly, we also had a training module through

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.

People who are in deep poverty often have few options which pushes them to take risks which in turn puts them at a higher risk of being trafficked. In such cases, impoverished migrants become dependent on brokers to find them jobs abroad and assist in their migration. However, during such a process causes them to drown in debt which locks them into their job. In countries where many people in a population have lost land due to factors such as political discord, crime, natural disasters, etc., human trafficking is a very tangible risk, as landless people are left vulnerable to exploitation.

Human Trafficking involves illegal use of force, fraud, and coercion that pimps use to control children and adults for sex purposes (Blue Campaign). The people that take young children and adults are called pimps. The pimps will find out young children and women’s weaknesses and use it against them by telling them all of the things that make them feel better about their life (Frundt). Human Trafficking generates many billions of dollars per year. The victims of human trafficking will hardly ever come forward to receive help because they may not be able to speak the language of the country that they are in or they may think that they will get in trouble with the law because they're pimp has been making them do drugs (Blue Campaign). Every

Human trafficking has been a dangerous industry in the united States for many years. Human/Sex trafficking is a form of slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of sex or labor. In the 1980’s when The Slave Across the Street by Theresa Flores took place and in the 1990’s when Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd took place, sex trafficking was a foreign term to most Americans even though it was a practiced activity. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center stated that in the United States there were more than 4,000 sex trafficking cases reported (Alvarez). On the years following that number has grown tremendously. "The Department of Justice has cited the legislation after a bump in trafficking investigations

Sex trafficking within the United States is a threat to homeland security and as a community, we need to find a solution to reduce it. “Sex trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit human beings for commercial sex purpose” (Department of Homeland Security). A federal policy is needed because every year, millions of men, women, and children worldwide are victims of sex trafficking (Department of Homeland Security). “Many of these victims are lured with false promises of financial or emotional security; and they are forced or coerced into commercial sex” (Department of Homeland Security). To reduce sex trafficking in the United States, there should be educational programs in the public schools, educating students on

by that particular government because of the communism that country may have. As the in the U.S. the Department of Health and Human Services is provided to help the women and girls who have or still are in the human trafficking industries. They are provided with the help of a person that may lead them down through the trauma they have experienced throughout the captivity of their traffickers and also in some cases they will be helped in educational programs where they can start a job. Now as in the cases of the traffickers they they may never be found by U.S. government because of their connections in some cases this traffickers have connection with the own government which may make it harder for them to be found. If they are captured they may have to deal with many consequences because of the illegal work they have done in the process of kidnapping and illegal transportation into the U.S. along with many other charges and many years of jail.

The world has witnessed the emergence of illicit trafficking networks such as : A. Q. Khan and other player’s to sell designs, materials, and equipment that could be used to build nuclear weapons within legitimate trade to conceal their shipments. Still, countries who seek to acquire nuclear weapons programs, and different actors who seek to disrupt global security with nuclear materials will continue to challenge international export regime. Another emerging threat is the potential for nuclear terrorism. The September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, heightened awareness of the threat posed by non-state actors to build a nuclear explosive or nuclear weapon. Illicit trafficking is a complex process which can include: many states, actors, companies, suppliers by which materials are traded. This process takes advantage of weaknesses in the export control systems, and the spread of knowhow on sensitive nuclear technologies which is facilitated by the internet (world-wide communication). These two factors increase the possibility that the state or non-state actors might steal or illicitly purchase highly enriched uranium or plutonium on the black market and use them to construct a nuclear device. The large stockpiles of usable nuclear weapon material around the world and the political instability in countries containing those materials, if they are not secured, make the accidental or unauthorized use of them a continuous risk [13]. This is a growing concern for both the IAEA and member states; in 1995 the IAEA established the Incident and Trafficking Database (ITDB).

Countries around the world have their own laws and prevention programs to deal with and prevent human trafficking; in the United States, each state has additional laws that enforcement officials practice under when prosecuting such cases. In 2002, New York Sate passed the NYS anti-trafficking law, which is the most extensive human trafficking law in the country, as it provides enforcement officials with tools and procedures to fight “modern-day slavery” (Division of Criminal Justice Services, 2002). A study done by Hepburn and Simons (2010) concluded that the NYS anti-trafficking law was mainly designed to target prostitution and its promotion, not necessarily to prosecute labor related human trafficking cases. During the creation of the