Human Trafficking In The United States

Human Trafficking exists in all parts of the world including in the United States. You have people who travel the world to go to exotic places for vacations; you also have people that go out of town to visit their families. Unfortunately half of these people are females and they do not make it back home due to human trafficking. There is an estimate of about 28 million people trapped in some form of slavery today, it is sometimes called modern day slavery which I got from a source and web site called End slavery now. Human Trafficking is illegal because you're being taken against your will and sometimes is being sold to men or to other countries for a high price. In other countries such as brazil, Netherlands, Switzerland, France,and Germany …show more content…
And I could most definitely believe this because, there are probably too many men having unprotected sex with these women and young girls especially if they are being taken advantaged of and doped up. Even in Africa the AIDS epidemic has left many children orphaned making them exposed to human trafficking. And once again according to the U.S state department, human trafficking is one of the greatest human rights challenges of this century both in the united states and around the world. Human trafficking victims face physical risks, such as drug and alcohol addiction, they contract STDS, miscarriages, forced abortions, vaginal and anal trauma. Their psychological effects includes developing clinical depression, personality and dissociative disorders, suicidal tendencies, post traumatic stress syndrome, and complex post-traumatic stress syndrome. Today slaves are more cheaper then they have ever been in history, the population explosion has created a great supply of workers, and globalization has created people who are vulnerable and easily enslaved.

A human trafficker can earn 20 times what he or she has paid for a girl. If the girl was not physically harmed or brutalized to the point of ruining her physical beauty, then the pimp could sell her again for a greater price and she’ll sell even more just because she’s trained. In a 2003 article studies in the netherlands found that on an average a single …show more content…
Criminal organizations are increasingly attracted to human trafficking because, unlike drugs humans can be sold repeatedly. And due to the men A.K.A the human traffickers they are difficult to catch, some because of their language and lack of knowledge others because they are simply just too slick. In approximately 54% of human trafficking cases, the recruiter is a stranger, and in 46% of the cases the recruiter know the victim. Half of these human trafficking recruiters are men, 42% are women and 6% are both men and women. I wouldn’t be surprised if the men turned on they own people and sold the working women that helps them catch the other young women and children. Human trafficking around the globe is estimated to make a profit of anywhere from 9 billion to 36.1 billion

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