1. Human Trafficking
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Labor Trafficking in the U.S.
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Labor traffickingoccurs indiverse contexts that encompass all
forms of labor or services. Commonplaces where forcedlabor
has beenfoundinthe UnitedStates include domestic servitude
andsmall-scale "momandpop" labor operations, to more large-
scale operations suchas farms andfactories. Certainlabor
brokers that supply labor to multinational corporations have
also beenidentifiedas anemergingtype of labor traffickers.
Sex traffickingincludes commercial sexual exploitationof
children(CSEC), as well as every instance where anadult is in
the sex trade as the result of force, fraud, or coercion. Sex
traffickingoccurs withinnumerous venues inthe broader sex
industry, commonly foundinstreet prostitution, online escort
services, residential brothels, andbrothels disguisedas massage
businesses. Under U.S. andinternational law, commercially
sexually exploitedchildrenfoundinthe sex trade are
consideredto be victims of trafficking, evenif no force or
coercionis present.
Victims of humantraffickinginthe UnitedStates include U.S.
citizens or foreignnationals, adults or minors, andmenor
women. Foreign-bornvictims inthe U.S. may be either
documentedor undocumented.
Because humantraffickingis consideredto be one of the fastest
growingcriminal industries, the U.S. government andacademic
Forms of forced labor have been found in
numerous places in the United States,
including cases of people forced to work in
restaurants.
It is estimated that there are 100,000 children in
the sex trade in the United States each year.
Human trafficking is a form of modern-
day slavery where people profit from the
control and exploitation of others. As
defined under U.S. federal law, victims
of human trafficking include children
involved in the sex trade, adults age 18
or over who are coerced or deceived into
commercial sex acts, and anyone forced
into different forms of "labor or
services," such as domestic workers
held in a home, or farm-workers forced to labor against their will. The factors
that each of these situations have in common are elements of force, fraud, or
coercion that are used to control people. Then, that control is tied to inducing
someone into commercial sex acts, or labor or services. Numerous people in the
field have summed up the concept of human trafficking as "compelled service."
Every year, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing
millions of people around the world, and here in the United States. Human
trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in
the world. Click here to access human trafficking resource packs.
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researchers are currently workingonanup-to-date estimate of
the total number of traffickedpersons inthe UnitedStates
annually. With100,000 childrenestimatedto be inthe sex
trade inthe UnitedStates eachyear, it is clear that the total
number of humantraffickingvictims inthe U.S. reaches into the
hundreds of thousands whenestimates of bothadults and
minors andsex traffickingandlabor traffickingare aggregated.
Click here for informationabout humantraffickingstatistics in
the U.S andabroad.
Click here for informationabout state, federal, andinternational
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