Human Trafficking And The United States

Human trafficking is the modernized version of slavery that involves force, fraud, and/or a type of labor in a sexual act. The United States government defines it to be “In which a sex act is forced in which the person induced has not yet been attained eighteen years of age” (National Institute of Justice). Human trafficking is a threat to all nations and promotes breakdown of families and can support organized crime. Trafficking can occur everywhere. Human trafficking and human smuggling are related to one another, but different crimes. The difference between smuggling and trafficking is that smuggling is the illegal movement of someone across a border while trafficking is the illegal exploitation of a person.

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 is as described by Wikipedia as the illegal trade in humans for the use of sexual exploitation or forced labor.

What exactly is human trafficking? We have all heard of it, but what actually is it. It’s a modern form of slavery. It involves controlling a person through force, fraud, or coercion to exploit the victim for forced labor, sexual exploitation, or both. It strips victims of their freedom and violates our nation’s promise that every person in the U.S. is guaranteed basic human rights. This is a crime (Beccera). Sadly, the United States is widely regarded as a destination country for human trafficking. According to the federal reports, nearly 14,500 to 17,500 victims are trafficked in the United States annually. That doesn’t even include the number of victims that are trafficked WITHIN the United States. If you are looking for a defined definition of human trafficking, California legislatures states it as being “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 forced prostitution or sexual services, domestic servitude, bonded sweatshop labor, or other debt bondage.” (Beccera) This is a crime that needs to come to an end.

"We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time" (George Bush, 2003). Human Trafficking, and other associated evils, have existed since the dawn of time. Today 's human trafficking has become a way of life, a criminal underworld upon whose existence stands crime rings, governments, government agencies and even some businesses. It has grown to a trade of immense dimensions with fingers throughout the entire realm of organized crime. Every aspect can be touched by the it, and it would seem as though there is nothing that can be done that is truly effective. This paper will attempt to analyze what has been done to stop human trafficking and discuss the attempts to stop it.

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

In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In article 4 of the Universal Declaration it says, no one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all forms. Yet in 2015 every state in America had reported cases of human trafficking. California had the most reported cases with 979 (NHTRC). Although Americans do not believe that human trafficking is a problem in the U.S., incidences of human trafficking are on the rise in violation of article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Educating Americans on what human trafficking is, understanding the signs and how to get help are important steps in solving America's human trafficking problem. The U.S. also needs

Sex trafficking is the act of using force, fraud or coercion to cause a commercial sex act. The victims are primarily women and children. Legally the practice of trafficking for sex encompasses the selection of people, transportation, provision, or forced commercial sexual acts, the use of force, fraud or duress, or if the person called upon to participate in this procedure under 18 years of age. Sex trafficking also occurs when traffickers recruit young women with false promises of good treatment and high payment, however, the reality is much harsher and once under control of the traffickers the women are exposed to slave like conditions and find it impossible to escape. The practice of human trafficking for sexual purposes was documented

Sex trafficking consists of the entrapment of an individual for the purpose of a commercial sex act or a sex act that occurs in exchange for anything of value (Kotrla, 2010). According to Gozdziak and MacDonnell (2007) sex trafficking is currently the most rapidly expanding form of global criminal activity and 50% of the victims are children (Kotrla, 2010). Around the world, an estimated 100,000 children are victims of sex trafficking annually (Potocky, 2010).

Human trafficking is often referred to as “prostitution” or “pimping” but there’s more to this than you know. To be more in depth, human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual exploitation for the trafficking of others. Sexual exploitation is the sexual abuse of children and youth through the exchange of sex or sexual acts for drugs, shelter, basics of life, protection, and/or money.

Human trafficking as defined by the United Nations is, “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms or coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation”(www.unescap.org). There are many forms of trafficking: sexual exploitation, including prostitution and pornography; forced labor, including agriculture, manufacturing (sweatshop), domestic servitude, fishing; forced marriage and illegal adoption; child soldiers; and organ trafficking (Al Jabal 48). The drug trade

Every year, thousands of women, men, and children get caught up in human trafficking. Human trafficking is when different kinds of labor are forced upon typically work labor or sexual exploitation. People can get trafficked in their own country and abroad. Human trafficking consists of three core elements, which are the action, the means, and the purpose. The action means the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons. The means includes threat of or use of force, deception, coercion, abuse of power or position of vulnerability. Lastly, the purpose is always exploitation. The exploitation can include, but is not limited to, sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.

“Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others, or for the extraction of organs or tissues, including surrogacy and ova removal”(Unknown, 2011). \

Human trafficking is the trading and selling of people without the consent of the individual being sold. Trafficking amongst humans is a modern form of slavery, intended to isolate the victim from family and people who can help them in order to make them subject to someone else’s will. It includes the illegal selling of others for forced sex work, labor, and/or marriage. The human trafficking industry is the second largest organized crime in the world, with profits upwards of $32 billion, $10 billion of which is from sexual exploitation and

Human Trafficking is the action of illegally recruiting, human beings either within national or international borders for sexual exploitation purposes. It is hard to pinpoint how many people are being affected by trafficking, due to the secrecy that the industry is involved in. Young teens are admitted in sex trade around the age of 12-14 years old. The sexual traffickers are generating almost 100 billion in profits. It is the third largest international crime industry. In the U.S alone, around 15,000-17,000 people are trafficked each year. This social problem is hard to interpret by others. People are not aware of the signs, dangers, and the effects that human sex trafficking has on society.