evaluated as a world-wide crime and official sites suggest that there are at least
12.3 million victims of human trafficking in the world and 300,000 of them happen
to be in the United States. Human trafficking, not only does it have personal and
psychological effects on society and is illegal, enables the movement of
immigrants across borders and provides easy income for organized crime group
and even terrorists. It is a global problem and one of the world’s most shameful
crimes and has changed the face of many states, especially New York.
Human trafficking began with the forced labor of Africans during the 1400s.
Although different forms