How Does Human Trafficking Still Exist
Human Trafficking in the United States: Why it still Exists Slavery may have been abolished on paper in 1865 when the 13th Amendment was passed, but practices of exploitation, violation and harassment are still rampant amongst many occupations in the country. This “modern day slavery” is known as human trafficking and consequently makes up for a large amount of the American economy. In the International Labor Organization (ILO) report , Profits and Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labor it confirms that only two thirds of the profits made from human trafficking amount to USD $99 million per year (15).
Further, data that was issued in the same report victims of human trafficking are; women and girls, primarily in commercial sexual exploitation …show more content…
In other words when approaching this issue the US has made attempts to try and stop human trafficking across the country,but has made little efforts to try and address the reasons that provoke and encourage human trafficking. According to a Polaris Press Release. 2014 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws, In the year of 2014, over 37 states passed legislation to combat human trafficking. Of these 37 states; Delaware, New Jersey, and Colorado, all have been recognized as “the most improved” states with laws against human trafficking. But, even though progress has been made in legislation, there is still a widespread amount of states that don't provide regulations that would prevent the issue of human trafficking first …show more content…
When victims of trafficking are being helped by the law, their citizen status often intervenes and any opportunity of rescue is being taken away. Caroline Reilly, a PBS journalist found a 2014 research portfolio from the Urban Institute, cases in which human trafficking victims were misplaced by being put in detention centers or jail instead of being recorded as trafficked individuals. Often undocumented immigrants make up the majority of the population that is being trafficked. If authorities view victims are undocumented immigrants before a trafficked individual then there will be no end to human trafficking. Instead trafficker will continue to prey on immigrants for exploited
Further, data that was issued in the same report victims of human trafficking are; women and girls, primarily in commercial sexual exploitation …show more content…
In other words when approaching this issue the US has made attempts to try and stop human trafficking across the country,but has made little efforts to try and address the reasons that provoke and encourage human trafficking. According to a Polaris Press Release. 2014 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws, In the year of 2014, over 37 states passed legislation to combat human trafficking. Of these 37 states; Delaware, New Jersey, and Colorado, all have been recognized as “the most improved” states with laws against human trafficking. But, even though progress has been made in legislation, there is still a widespread amount of states that don't provide regulations that would prevent the issue of human trafficking first …show more content…
When victims of trafficking are being helped by the law, their citizen status often intervenes and any opportunity of rescue is being taken away. Caroline Reilly, a PBS journalist found a 2014 research portfolio from the Urban Institute, cases in which human trafficking victims were misplaced by being put in detention centers or jail instead of being recorded as trafficked individuals. Often undocumented immigrants make up the majority of the population that is being trafficked. If authorities view victims are undocumented immigrants before a trafficked individual then there will be no end to human trafficking. Instead trafficker will continue to prey on immigrants for exploited