The reason why most people define these two dangerous, illegal matters to be similar is usually they both involve to be moving across national borders, but smugglers always move migrants across while trafficking doesn’t necessarily involve movement (Pierce). Consent is the most important and hardest to distinguish movement across borders. It is important to realize the difference between smuggling and Human Trafficking because both media policy outlets are confusing the terms, resulting in dangerous policy implications. There are different punishments for each crimes and if …show more content…
Many people mistake that victims of Human Trafficking are taken for mostly sexual exploitation, which is not the case at all. On a global scale, approximately 2.5 million people are trafficked across national borders each year, of whom measure only 40% (mainly women) are likely to be victims of sex trafficking. While the rest of the 60% is to be used for other injustice work (Lavorgna). These misguided victims are processed and taken in many different