History

there are 25 different forms of trafficking including, but not limited to, sex and labor works. Congress signed the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act in the year 2000 to fight human trafficking.


In the United States, trafficked persons are mainly undocumented, migrant/immigrant women, coming to the US for work. These women are at risk on because of their gender, race, status, and opportunity. The US Border Control and Customs states,"women and girls are disproportionately affected by forced labor, accounting for 99% of victims in the commercial sex industry, and 58% in other sectors."(US Border Control & Customs)

There are primarily 25 forms of trafficking including, but not limited to, sex, agriculture, and labor works. It is said by human rights website Human Rights First that “among the most profitable sectors for labor trafficking are, in order, 1) construction, mining, manufacturing and utilities; 2) agriculture, forestry and fishing; and 3) domestic servitude. Domestic sex traffickers also stand to make extraordinary profits from pimping both children and adults(Human Rights First).” Traffickers have been identified not only as being male drug dealers, but law enforcement, lawyers, businessmen, social workers,and even pastors. Consumers are aware of the risk they undergo by participating and covering up illicit activity

Human Trafficking is a growing epidemic prevalent since the beginning of time, that specifically targets vulnerable victims, so that the offender may profit.


The injustice of trafficking has been prevalent throughout history, coming in different forms, the largest example being the African slave trade.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that approximately 12.3 million people are currently victims of forced work in the United States alone.

The Department of State also estimates that 14,500 to 17,500 people are newly trafficked into the United States each year.

As of 2016, an estimated 40.3 million people are in this modern slavery worldwide, meaning that there are 5.4 victims for every 1,000 people in the world.

Trafficking has spread internationally like a wildfire, to the extent and volume the UN criminalized it under ”Transnational Organized Crime'' ( 2000). Presently, there are, at a minimum, 510 (known) flows all over the world.