Essay About Trafficking Victims And United States

Human Trafficing
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Human trafficking like prostitution has been around for many years. It is a fact that more
money than one can imagine has been made selling humans to the highest bidder. It is also a
fact that money made from human trafficking finds its way into the hands of drug lords. Drug
lords than turn around and give the money to support terrorist activities. This could not have
been made more evident to the United States than on September 11, 2001. What can the
United States with the help of the United Nations do about countries actively involved in human
trafficking?In1865, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress ratified the 13
Amendment of the Constitution which states neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist
within the United States.
Over the past decade, trafficking in human beings has reached
epidemic proportions. No country is immune, including the United States. Traffickers operate in
our own country, stalking our own citizens, especially our children. “The U. S. State
Departments 2005 Report on Human Trafficking estimates that between 600,000 to 800,000
people are trafficked across international borders every year and almost 20,000 are trafficked
across U.S. borders alone.”
What is more disturbing than that number is that half of all
trafficking victims are children under the age of eighteen. United States law enforcement has
documented cases of Latvian girls trafficked into sexual slavery in Chicago, or Ukrainian girls
trafficked in Los Angeles, and Maryland, or Thai, Korean, Malaysian and Vietnamese girls
trafficked in Georgia, or Mexican girls trafficked in California, New Jersey and Florida. Like
slave