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    and some of the American society’s attention. Today there has been a significant rise in the views of Mexican immigrants as the election draws nearer. One of the candidates for this year’s election has even been quoted saying that the only type of people Mexico is sending into the United States are rapists, criminals, and drug smugglers. All of which is not true. Mexico is not sending anyone to the U.S., their citizens are making…

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    very similar to smuggling. Those who are “smuggled” into a country are doing so by their own free will, without coercion. Human trafficking victims don’t have to be shipped anywhere internationally to still be “trafficked”. Since they are being captured or coerced into slavery, it is against their free will, therefore wildly different from smuggling. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Human trafficking is a “criminal business that profits from enslaving people for…

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    Yakuza Organized Crime

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    46). With such a large trade in the smuggling of drugs, the yakuza also supplies the United States, as it was estimated that “the yakuza smuggling operations supply an estimated 90 percent of the crystal methamphetamine that is available in Hawaii” (Gragert and Bruce, 2010, p. 177). However, with the drug trade being such an enormous business, the yakuza have been known to work with other groups for smuggling purposes. Gragert and Bruce (2010) contend “the yakuza have formed…

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    instruments of policy that were used, but most of the debt would come from using the paying the policemen and the DEA to enforce the laws. Furthermore, the second disadvantage would be the fact that it would continue contributing to the rise of crime. Many people, including, but not limited to: Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, and former secretary of state George Shultz—have argued that “drug prohibition actually causes more crime and other harms than it prevents”…

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    first-world countries. It’s a twenty-seven billion dollar plus industry that victimizes over 35 million people worldwide. Human trafficking is the act of illegal recruitment or transport by means of force, coercion, exploitation or other such tactics typically for forced labor or commercial sex purposes (UNODC). The problems associated with Human Trafficking include: organ trafficking, migrant smuggling, corruption, CSEC, and gender discrimination. Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery…

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    Sex Trafficking Vs Labor

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    that is not always the case. Sex trafficking exists in diverse and unique areas of where sex trafficking actually happens. Peoples thoughts of what sex trafficking is, is true but what most do not know is that trafficking happens in businesses like fake massage business,…

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    trafficking. Millions of people were traded and sold all around the world in these horrid operations. Thousands were robbed of childhood and stripped from the opportunity of a normal life. Human trafficking bestows lifelong consequences upon its victims that are, in some cases, incurable. Due to the fact that the trafficking of humans takes a toll on an entire community or nation, it is up to its citizens and law enforcement to identify and prevent trafficking among its people. Human…

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    British rule, the majority of the people in the English-speaking Caribbean were still being identified culturally and politically with the British. During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, his administration had made developments at the beginning of the 1980’s, which in turn created more interest in the Caribbean. By the 1980s the United States government knew that they had a increasing problem with traffickers using the Caribbean islands as transport points for smuggling narcotics into the United…

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    1. Define what you are protecting You are protecting the citizens of America against drugs coming across our southern border (carried in via vehicles and people walking and excluding aircraft). Drug trafficking is a worldwide unlawful exchange including the development, produce, circulation and offer of substances which are liable to medication denial laws such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and others. The common of illegal drugs comes from southern border into United States, the…

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    extortion, money laundering, capital fraud, premeditated assassination, etc. In some cases, crime syndicates are even powerful enough to influence election results and initiate political corruption. Interpol estimates that approximately almost a million people worldwide are operating in over 6,000 organized crime groups; as a result, it is estimated that over 1 trillion USD flows through organized crime syndicates every year (according to the CIA). These groups can be highly organized and…

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