Human trafficking is a big crime against humanity that exploits its victims. Human trading or as many might call it is the modern day slavery of today’s time period. Trafficking or also known as slavery, took place back in the historic periods of Americas history. Today, trafficking is an industry that has grown to be a billion dollar industry where women, men, and children are all targeted. They are used for many different things such as labor, sex, pornography, drug trafficking, recruiting members for gangs as well as to being organ donors for the black market. These human traffickers or smugglers target the most vulnerable, the women and children. The way these smugglers capture their victims is tricking them and making them believe in fake …show more content…
These people that are being trafficked can be escaping violence, poverty, and abuse or sometimes even worse situations in their countries. The only way to help pay back their debts to their smugglers is to work as sex slaves, or in hard labor to pay off their coyotes or smugglers. Even though this is not morally right it is the price some of these victims must pay to be smuggled for a better future. It has its risks but a lot of the people who are being smuggled are usually the poor with little to no money at all, and want to come here to work. Prostitution, sexual favors, or harsh labor conditions are sometimes the only means for financial exchange these victims have to pay their smugglers, as well as being the only jobs that will not need legal documentation or the need of education or work …show more content…
How it is that slavery was abolished many years ago but it still exists today in present day years? There is a reason why it was eliminated years ago because it was inhumane and cruel and it took its victims’ rights away.
Legal slavery ended in the United States in 1865, yet the practice of forcing individuals to work against their will, oftentimes in inhumane conditions, continues today. Currently there are around 50,000 people working in forced labor situations in the United States. Although this number is smaller than it was during the 18th century, finding and freeing these individuals is difficult because they are hidden away and exploited. (Buckley, n.d)
The only way we can stop this form of slavery is to be informed and aware, we need to speak up and put an end to this violence. There are many of resources in which we can find in a click of a second as well as we have the luxury of cells phones and call the National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-373-7888 .Human trafficking is a form of abuse the falsifies the United States of America, that everyone who comes here gets their freedom and are able to have their inalienable