Sex trafficking in cities of the United States has become a prolonged epidemic. However, many individuals and groups have seized the opportunity to take a stand against those who run the sex trafficking rings, as well as provide comfort and support to those who fell victim to sex trafficking. Such individuals and organizations have started the process of ending sex trafficking and bringing justice to the victims by contracting prevention programs, building trust funds, expanding safe homes and communities to victims and supporting laws that prosecute the men or women responsible for trafficking rings. Although this epidemic is larger than a national issue, as it is broadcasted worldwide, the beginning to the end of this degrading and inhuman
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Quoting the US federal law in 2000, Trumbull makes it known that there is an undeniable parallelism between the definitions of human trafficking in the case of forced manual labor or slavery and in the case of involuntary prostitution and sex trafficking. Trumbull identifies human trafficking by the actions “‘ the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons.’” the author also notes that human and sex trafficking are more than often related to the migration of people across borders (Trumbull 1). These immigrants come to new countries in seek of bountiful jobs but are in reality coerced into paying back their form of debt for being smuggled across borders through servitude, slavery, prostitution or other illegal crimes where the victim is performing acts against their will. However, Trumbull reports that migration of people is not the only case where individuals become victims of trafficking, stating that one does not have to cross a border in order to be coerced into acts such as sex trafficking. The victims of these actions of exploitation suffer physical, mental and psychological trauma. The testimony of Anastasia Brown, Director of Refugee Programs of Migration and Refuge Services of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on her provision for programs that provide encouragement and support for trafficking victims, in particular sex trafficking of women and children, presents the evidence that most, if not all, victims are traumatized by the amount and forcefulness of the abuse they have to endure by the time they are rescued, if that ever happens for them. Being educated on the topic of sex trafficking and how the victims are affected after being violated and exploited, allows individuals to be knowledgeable and cautious of any future situations as well as supportive and sympathetic towards all
Quoting the US federal law in 2000, Trumbull makes it known that there is an undeniable parallelism between the definitions of human trafficking in the case of forced manual labor or slavery and in the case of involuntary prostitution and sex trafficking. Trumbull identifies human trafficking by the actions “‘ the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons.’” the author also notes that human and sex trafficking are more than often related to the migration of people across borders (Trumbull 1). These immigrants come to new countries in seek of bountiful jobs but are in reality coerced into paying back their form of debt for being smuggled across borders through servitude, slavery, prostitution or other illegal crimes where the victim is performing acts against their will. However, Trumbull reports that migration of people is not the only case where individuals become victims of trafficking, stating that one does not have to cross a border in order to be coerced into acts such as sex trafficking. The victims of these actions of exploitation suffer physical, mental and psychological trauma. The testimony of Anastasia Brown, Director of Refugee Programs of Migration and Refuge Services of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on her provision for programs that provide encouragement and support for trafficking victims, in particular sex trafficking of women and children, presents the evidence that most, if not all, victims are traumatized by the amount and forcefulness of the abuse they have to endure by the time they are rescued, if that ever happens for them. Being educated on the topic of sex trafficking and how the victims are affected after being violated and exploited, allows individuals to be knowledgeable and cautious of any future situations as well as supportive and sympathetic towards all