Essay On 13th Amendment

Do illegal residents and immigrants have constitutional rights? Why the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution protect the immigrant victims? The Constitution of the United States was written to restrain the government from interfering with the natural rights of an individual such as the right to think, worship, choosing a mate and so on. According to Andrew Napolitano, the Supreme court identified the right to travel as a natural right in 1969, and shortly after the First immigration statute was enacted in the 1880s- it ruled that aliens, whether legal or illegal, are persons, and the constitution protects all persons from governmental deprivation. The illegal immigrants are not fully protected by the constitution, but the Fourteenth Amendment has been interpreted as assuring them at least a significant measure of constitutional equality and fair treatment (Reason Free Mind and Free Market). Thus, the US government must take measures to prevent the corporates or third parties, from interfering the human rights of immigrants begin forced to work for labor, sex, and organ transplants. …show more content…
The power of the thirteenth amendment is two-fold because it first forbids the entire illegal slavery and involuntary activities and secondly it allows the passage of laws like Trafficking Victim Protection Act to prohibit any activity, which the effect of slavery may be. But, these rights were consistently denied when each victim qualified for protection under TVPA act. In the same manner, according to Polaris Project study, the average age at which girls enter into prostitution is 12-14 years in America ( (Polaris Freedom happens Now). Both these issues question America’s rank in the TIP annual report and its measures to tackle the modern