The History Of Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking according to the Merriam Webster dictionary is ”the organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited as by being forced into prostitution or involuntary labor.” This is an unfortunate circumstance where heartless people take advantage over others who are being oppressed and conformed into an environment that is closely controlled. No matter what a person’s legal status may be in the United States they can be captured into this ring. For example, people are lured into schemes such as false job offers or free travel vacations which entice an innocent soul with a reward but actually lead them to treacherous enslavement. Some reasons traffickers are placed in their positions …show more content…
More than “40 bills have been enacted and roughly 350 introduced. That compares with just eight bills adopted across the country in 2006.” (Savage) This year alone laws were passed in Vermont and Oklahoma along with a few other states in progress. (Savage) They also created a “national human trafficking hotline, run by the Polaris Project” the people wanted to become more involced as it started to become more of a concern. The hotline reported "In the first month, we were getting around 300 or 400 calls," Myles said. "Now we 're getting 900 to 1,000 a month." (Savage) Human trafficking is starting to call attention to more and more citizens around the country and the states are trying to create laws to help prevent it. Some states haven’t fully discovered the secrets of human trafficking in their states yet. Although it is arising slowly, the awareness is beginning to spread and people are opening their eye to harsh and cruel ideas of human …show more content…
As a nation helping these young women should be a priority because they’re scared and their low self-esteem will be over powered if they even dared to leave. They are terrified and they can’t be punish for something they didn’t intentionally go into. Since young women are what the customers want, traffickers will make more money because, hypothetically speaking , if one girl is sold $400 a night , then the trafficker would make an average of 146,000 a year, tax free too. On top of that most traffickers have a line up of about 10 girls or more, that’s over a million dollars a year. (Hepburn) Human trafficking is thriving so much in young women, because they are the ones who role in the big bucks and all the bosses have to do is sit back relax and