Legalization Of Human Trafficking In The United States

What is Human Trafficking?

Human trafficking is a process of people being recruited in their community and country of origin and transported to the destination where they are being exploited for purposes of forced labor, prostitution, domestic servitude, and other forms of exploitation.

The subject of human trafficking has received an increased attention in the beginning of the 21 century through the developing mass media influence. However, this topic always seemed to be highly discussed. Its origins date back to the mid-nineteenth century when large masses of people were moving across the borders to find brighter future especially in the new world and a lot of slave forces were used at that time. It appears that era of forced labor was not

The United Nations estimates that human trafficking generates up to $10 billion annually.

This type of crime is a devastating violation of human rights and takes place all around the world, especially in the United States, also known as the “capital” of other illegal businesses.

The United Nations estimates that Human Trafficking generates up to $10 billion annually with 600,000 – 800,000 victims trafficked across international borders annually. The U.S. State Department estimates that between 14,500 and 17,500 victims are trafficked into this country each year. but the true figure could be higher The majority of trafficking victims come to the United States from Southeast Asia, Latin America, the former Soviet Union, Africa and other developing countries. Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat: it deprives people of their human rights and freedoms, it is a global health risk, and it fuels the growth of organized crime. Devastating impact on individual victims, who often suffer physical and emotional abuse, rape, threats against self and family, passport theft, and even

The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. A victim need not be physically transported from one location to another in order for the crime to fall within these definitions. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/82902.pdf Types of HT

Research conducted by University of California at Berkeley on behalf of the anti-trafficking organization Free the Slaves found that about 46% of people in slavery in the United States are forced into prostitution.

• PROSTITUTION (46%) – brothels

• Domestic servitude 27%

• Agriculture 10%

• Factories 5%

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