Illegal crimes have always been a lucrative industry in the United States, yet one sector has proven to be an evil that has a particularly complicated arrangement. Human trafficking is defined as the action of illegally transporting people for the purposes of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation. Labor trafficking involves the victim to be […]
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Human trafficking prevalent in the U.S.
It’s hard to know how many victims of human trafficking there are in America. The U.S. State Department estimates that 17,000 women, girls and boys are sold through the human sex trade every year in the U.S. The Department of Justice’s estimates are higher — between 100,000 and 300,000.