Who is your favorite National Football Team? Mine is the Pittsburgh Steelers, now imagine that your team’s record for the year is 16-0 and you are heading to the Super bowl! How great is that? Your team is playing in one of the biggest games of the year, and you have the chance to watch them defeat the Baltimore Ravens live. Pretty sweet huh? Super Bowl Sunday is one of the biggest days in America, it is also the biggest day for Human Trafficking in America. In 2010 there were over ten thousand women and children sold for trafficking in Miami. Throughout this paper, I am going to be discussing three major facts of Human Trafficking in America. My three major points are going to be; what is Human Trafficking, where is it taking place, and how can we stop it?
First, let us talk about what exactly is Human Trafficking? Human Trafficking is trafficking a person as recruitment, transfer, or harboring a person, where they have control over them and become their pimp. Many traffickers get promised a one way deal, meaning if they sign this contract, or go with this person they will be famous, make money for their family, have a house over their heads are just many “promises” that are made to them from their pimps. We often do not hear the word pimp used as much as we do “jon” which is a name
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They are called a “trade”, and during that trade the girls are their sex slaves for a time period depending how much they paid for them. In 2015 a single Super Bowl ticket was just under $6,500.00(NFL). Each day of the Super Bowl weekend, the women are expected to sleep with twenty-five to fifty men a day. Approximately 75-80% of human trafficking is for sex, the estimate on traffickers is; 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world are trafficked. Each year it is estimated that the industry brings in at least thirty billion dollars.