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Text Box: What is Human Trafficking?
The crime of human trafficking involves the severe exploitation of a person for the purpose of labor or commercial sex.  It appears as domestic servitude as well as forced prostitution.  This modern-day form of slavery has been found in even the best communities in the United States, concealing itself within upper class neighborhoods as well as seedier areas of society.  It preys on the young the vulnerable and does not distinguish between immigrant and citizen.  
Legal Definition
Recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtainment, by any means, of any person for peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor. Federal Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA)
Trafficking Statistics
•   Fastest growing criminal industry worldwide 
•   Second most lucrative criminal industry worldwide 
•   Reaches almost a million victims annually 
•   Amasses annual revenues of $13 billion
•   18,000 to 20,000 victims trafficked into the U.S. each year 
Trafficking v. Smuggling



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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

SMUGGLING

Victims are coerced

Those smuggled are not coerced

Subsequent exploitation/forced labor is involved

Only an unauthorized border crossing is involved

Those trafficked are seen as VICTIMS by the law

Those smuggled are seen as CRIMINALS by the law