While growing up I often heard, "don't talk to strangers" and "don't run off by yourself". Innocents are taken advantage of and are ensnared into a "game" so the manipulator profits. Human trafficking happens on local, national, and international scales. When people think of human trafficking, they expect third world countries with weak enforcement policies. That’s not always the case. Human trafficking concerns myself because of the lack of safety of any individual before and after the occurrence.
Human trafficking advocates the violation of natural rights, abusive lifestyles, and slavery. Human trafficking mimics behavior prior to the American Civil War in which laborious, even abusive, tactics were used against an individual race. Human
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Eighty-three percent of confirmed trafficking cases in the United States involve United States born citizens; this data demonstrates that trafficking can happen to anyone including Americans.
As a child, I watched news stories of young girls, trafficked into marriage and labor, found beaten, sexually violated, and even dead after their kidnappings. The sex trade remains significant to me because I’m an Indian American. Based on statistics, if I lived in India, there’s only a miniscule possibility I’m not a slave. Fifteen million Indian children are forced into bondage according to the Human Rights Watch. As a socially advanced nation, the United States prosecutes slaveowners and the convicted receive their consequences.
However, in India, trafficking defines victims and brings shame to their family in addition to the lack of escape from their mindscape experienced by all victims. For example, once a girl named Ruksana was kidnapped from her own home and forced into marriage to perform manual labor to avoid physical abuse; she informed the Global Post that, “ Everyone in my village knows my story. I will never be able to get married