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Human Trafficking: Illegal Immigration

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Human smuggling is a type of illegal immigration in which an agent is paid to help a person cross the border clandestinely. Human trafficking is the exploitation of unwillingly or unwitting people through force, coercion, threat, or deception. (Schmalleger; Pg. 380) The difference between the two, is that human smuggling the party/individual is aware and willing to cross the border, and in human trafficking the party/individual is unaware or unwilling to cross the border. It pretty sad to think that this issue is easily over looked every day, but I think the best way to help stop the issue is make people more aware of the issue. The public should be more educated on the dangers of that smuggling and trafficking can cause, and maybe there should
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