Human Trafficking In The United States
Americans do not fear of potentially being sold into forced labor because they never notice that it does happen in the United States. One place in particular it happens is around the Mexico-United States boarder. Many will immigrate to the United States for a better life and to find jobs so they may send the money home, but they are targets for human trafficking. Traffickers trick victims to sign “labor contracts” which force them to get pay deductions for food and shelter. The United States is a destination country. In other words, traffickers take their victims here to be sold and forced into labor (Garza 427). The Mexico-United States boarder is not the only location in the United States that is prevalent in human trafficking. Throughout the United States as a whole, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 minors are trafficked per year from and within the country (Butler 1466). The goal of human traffickers is to find the location where people are the most desperate to make money and the local employers are the most desperate for cheap