Child Trafficking Eq

Not For Sale EQ: What is the history of child trafficking in the United States, and how effective have the current laws been in stopping this practice? Child trafficking is disturbing. It is even more disturbing to know that the child trafficking business is making billions of dollars. More shocking than the huge consumption of money is that the trafficking of children all around in the United States especially California. Our home state. There have been cases in all fifty states in the United States. The victims are mostly young women who are brought from poor countries into the U.S. to become prostitutes or servants; slaves, with no pay. Child trafficking is happening because there are not enough government officials to stop such
Instead of slowing it down it is growing even more rapidly day by day. Child trafficking has many forms. Young children are lured into prostitution, and child pornography is the largest business involving children in the US. It is considered child pornography and child prostitution when the minor is involved in sexually explicit conduct. Forced labor, slavery, and servitude go in the same category. All three actions have to do with forcing the victim to do actions they are not familiar with or simply not comfortable performing. The removal of organs, international adoption, trafficking for marriage, recruiting children as child soldiers, or recruiting for cults mostly happens in foreign countries, not so much in the US. Although it has not been seen as much in the US, it can be possible. There have been cases in San Diego, California, where bodies of young women with missing organs. Children are targeted into this industry because they are extremely vulnerable and innocent. Children do not understand the circumstances of accepting amazing offers from strangers who just deceit them in the end. According to Bergman “More
When interviewed by a reporter or simply just a person that is interested in the topic of trafficking, the victims break down in tears and sobs. After watching a victim break down just by asking how their experience was you can tell right away that it was horrific. According to May "It makes me sick to my stomach. Girls are being forced to come to this country. Their families back home are threatened, and they are being raped repeatedly, over and over" (May). Traffickers usually fly the new recruited women into Mexico or Canada. After landing in Mexico victims drive or begin walking to California through desert paths in Arizona and Texas. After landing in Canada victims go through Indian reservations where the US Border Patrol is not present. According to May “It's not like the movies where you open a trunk and you interview them and they tell you everything, they aren't going to tell you they're victimized because they aren't -- yet" (May). Victims still do not know that at the end of the journey they are not going to get that job as a model or a hostess. Instead they are forced to become a dancer at a strip club, sold into a brothel, or begin working in an Asian massage parlor in San Francisco, forced to have sex to make money for their