Rosa, a 13-year-old waitress in a small Mexican village was told by a family friend about a higher paying waitressing job in the US. The job was supposed to give her an opportunity to help her to be able to support her family even more. It took some time for Rosa to persuade her family to let her take the job but ultimately she did. Not to shortly after her acceptance, Rosa and a few other girls traveled on foot across the border to uncharted territory to a rundown trailer where they would be working doing jobs other than just waitressing. At that point Rosa’s life would be changed forever (Grimes). Rosa’s story is one of many that describe partly what happens to victims of the human trafficking phenomenon. …show more content…
How do we begin to face the challenges of the aftereffect of victims when battling human trafficking? There is notation of belief that maybe sending the victims back “home” will resolve the issue. But this may not at all be the solution. According to David Feingold, a research anthropologist and filmmaker, “sending the victims home may simply place them back into the same conditions that endangered them in the first place”(Feingold). This is not the only issue the victims face. Some victims face the problem of not having a may not have a “home” that they can go back to leaving them on the street looking for a place to go. By sending these victims back to the place where they were taking from only puts them back into the same dangers or maybe more they face before they got trafficked. Not only will some remain homeless and unwilling fall back into the industry, there may even be some victims who go back on their own because that is all they know and at least they wouldn’t be helpless. This is why there needs to be a safe haven where victims can go to and receive proper aid as well as health services, social and psychological