Modern Day Slavery: Human Trafficking In The United States

Nothing drives the passion and stirs the emotion, in the United States and across the nation, more than the horrible stories of modern-day slavery. Whether domestic, or sexual, the terror and horror that human trafficking victims have endured challenges our scope of sensitivities. Human trafficking is one of the modern day most terrible human rights violations. Because human trafficking is a very hidden crime, concrete statistics are hard to find as to what percentage of human trafficking is, exclusively, sex trafficking. Therefore, my focus will be on sex trafficking. The U.S. Department of State (2005) finds that approximately 600,000 to 800,000 victims are trafficked annually across international borders worldwide and approximately half
Furthermore, they address the crime in a manner that preserves the rights of the victims, dwells on the facts of a testimony, and reduces the harm to the respondent. Due to the differences, in the nature of the human smuggling offences, the journalists make assumptions in their documentation. The assumptions include the uncertainty of the magnitude, the variability of the nature, and the reaction styles to the offenses. On the other hand, the news media portrays correct information that encompasses the number of vulnerable persons, the majority group, and the age strata. Additionally, the reporters follow the human rights provisions to report fairly about suspects. Thus, human trafficking reports focus on the testimonies of the accused and the plaintiff, as well as the court proceedings. Therefore, the news media is an important stakeholder in the war against human smuggling as they assist the law makers to uncover stories, establish a case’s basis, and find out the
Even though, it gives people a perspective of what sex trafficking is all about, it also obscures the realities of sex trafficking. Especially, when it comes to the deeper structural factors that create vulnerable populations and abundance of sex traffickers. Many films, just like Taken frame trafficking solely on the terms criminalization and victimization. And also on the assumption that women and girls are the most vulnerable human beings that need a strong man to rescue them. According to the article, “Moving Beyond Slaves, Sinners and Saviors,” by Carrie N. Baker, the “US media films add a portrayal of other cultures, particularly in developing nations, as primitive and or barbaric thereby positioning American males as saviors. (Baker). Although films are created to attract the audience’s attention and show them a deeper meaning of our real world and educate them about global issues that need to be noticed, creating fictional stories like Taken only can mislead people on the broader stories of human trafficking. Not every story has a Former CIA father, who does the impossible to rescue their daughter from high criminal in sex trafficking, there is no rescue filled with tears of joy and there is no happy