The Pros And Cons Of Human Trafficking

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Some people call human trafficking the modern day slavery. Human trafficking is the use of other people's benefits when humans are bought and sold. Many people think there is only a few aspects of human trafficking, but there is a little bit more. Do you know all the aspects of human trafficking and all that goes on once someone has been trafficked. Who is to blame for human trafficking? Although people want to blame the authorities because they feel that they are not doing enough to stop human trafficking, but the traffickers are doing the trafficking. In the events that when a victim is targeted there is not much they can do once they are taken, there is a rare chance that a victim will get away after they are sold and bought. In one year traffickers take people to buy and sell them by doing that they make billions of dollars. “Traffickers or pimps make As a whole human trafficking is a lucrative industry that around the globe rakes in $150 billion” (Alvarez). “In the U.S alone traffickers make $9.5 billion” (Brand). Consequently while every year there are people who are being trafficked that we are not even…show more content…
It is when women and kids are taken and used for manual labor or commercial sex acts “trafficking or slavery is the exploitation of women and children,...includes…. prostitution and sex trafficking of women and girls,...and is characterized by the exploitation of a human being in exchange for goods or money.” (Facts on Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery). If you live in a big city or a high populated area you might be seeing trafficked victims everyday and not even know it, they have been silenced so they can’t tell anyone about their situation. When students from Manton High School were asked what they know about human trafficking and what it involved, 75% of the students that were asked said that human trafficking involved slavery either if it was sex slavery or labor

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