Unfortunately the drama of human trafficking victims does not stop when they are rescued, escape from their captors or police arrest the victims. Often, after cruel abuse human trafficking victims have to face the legal consequences of their actions. One of the biggest dilemmas when dealing with human trafficking victims is that the legal system punishes them for committing a crime they were forced to commit in the first place (Kubasek & Herrera, 2015, p. 173). Even though human trafficking victims are forced to commit crimes like prostitution and drug trafficking, they are aware that when it is time to face the legal system they will be treated as criminals. Human traffickers use this information to threaten, terrorize, and intimidate their
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Another legal consequence of human trafficking is deportation (Rodriguez Quiroga, 2011). Human trafficking often involves crossing one or more borders. Victims who cross the border legally and unwillingly get involved in a human trafficking stay longer than their visa allowed them to do, and that is a violation of immigration laws. On the other hand, there are the victims that cross the border illegally in a pursuit of a better life, but once they get to the final destination the same people that helped them to cross the border illegally force them to work in miserable conditions or as sex workers. The deportation of human trafficking victims is a missed opportunity for law enforcement to get to the root of the problem because “victims who are deported are unable to cooperate in the prosecution of the criminals involved in the trafficking” (The advocates of human rights, 2005, p. 3). Most of the cases that end on deportation are never file as human trafficking which leads false statistics about human trafficking. When victims of human trafficking face law enforcement they are treated as a criminals, and not like people who need rehabilitation. Victims pain and needs are ignore and forgotten while on the way to jail or their
Another legal consequence of human trafficking is deportation (Rodriguez Quiroga, 2011). Human trafficking often involves crossing one or more borders. Victims who cross the border legally and unwillingly get involved in a human trafficking stay longer than their visa allowed them to do, and that is a violation of immigration laws. On the other hand, there are the victims that cross the border illegally in a pursuit of a better life, but once they get to the final destination the same people that helped them to cross the border illegally force them to work in miserable conditions or as sex workers. The deportation of human trafficking victims is a missed opportunity for law enforcement to get to the root of the problem because “victims who are deported are unable to cooperate in the prosecution of the criminals involved in the trafficking” (The advocates of human rights, 2005, p. 3). Most of the cases that end on deportation are never file as human trafficking which leads false statistics about human trafficking. When victims of human trafficking face law enforcement they are treated as a criminals, and not like people who need rehabilitation. Victims pain and needs are ignore and forgotten while on the way to jail or their