Human Smuggling And Trafficking In The United States

Human Smuggling and Trafficking: Over 14 thousand, every year. That’s how many new victims are brought into the USA annually. Majority of them are women and children who are unwillingly forced to provide sexual or labor exploitation. Unfortunately human smuggling and trafficking is increasing rapidly and many are unaware of the situation that’s happening right in our backyards. We need to help people to recognize this abhorrent crime and end it. Human Smuggling is the facilitation transportation, attempted transportation of illegal entry of a person across an international border, in violation of the law.

Holly Austin Smith was only 14 years old when she became a victim of human trafficking. During her summer vacation between middle school