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Don't be afraid to ask questions:
Can you leave your job if you want to?
Can you come and go as you please?
Have you been hurt or threatened if you tried to leave?
Has your family been threatened?
Do you live with your employer?
Where do you sleep and eat?
Are you in debt to your employer?
Do you have your passport/identification?
If you know someone who is in human trafficking call 911, a human trafficking hotline, or local authorities ("Identify and").
Red flags of Victims:
Living with an employer
Poor living conditions
Multiple people in a cramped space
Inability to speak to an individual alone
Answers appear to be scripted/rehearsed
The employer is holding identity documents
Signs of physical abuse
Submissive/fearful
Unpaid/paid very little
Under 18 prostitution
("Identify and").
Traffickers usually go for easy targets including people who have experienced or been exposed to other forms of violence. Some may include child abuse, maltreatment, interpersonal violence, sexual assault, and gang violence. Traffickers look for people disconnected from stable support networks: runaway/homeless youth, unsupervised minors, and people displaced during natural disasters. Some ways people get into human trafficking:
Recruiting: forceful targeting of defenselessness and grooming behaviors
Harboring: isolation, confinement, monitoring
Transporting: movement and arranging travel
Providing: given to another person
Obtaining: forcibly taking, or exchanging something for the ability to control
Soliciting: offering something of value
Patronizing: receiving something of value
(“Fact Sheet”).
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