The 13th Amendment

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Trafficking cases begin with the offender contacting potential victims on social networking sites. Most common techniques use to lure victims include expressing love and admiration for the victim, promises to make victims a star, providing a ticket for the victim to leave their home and promises of a good job. After victims are lured by offenders, they are restricted from communicating with their families due to threats of physical punishment unless the victim complies with demands and threats of harm and death to victims’ family. Former President of the United States, Barack Obama, spoke about sex trafficking and hopes the use of technology will also aid in combating sex trafficking. He stated in the Address to the Clinton Global Initiative, “We’re turning the tables on the traffickers. Just as they are now using technology and the Internet to exploit their victims, we’re going to harness technology to stop them.

Child labor can be considered force, not because children are too young to choose to work, but because they are coerced into working. Most children labor is due to parents’ as payments or collateral on debt. This often deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity and harmful to physical and mental development. Child labor refers to work that can also interfere with their schooling by depriving them of attending school, causing them to leave school early, or requiring them to combine school attendance with excessing long and heavy work. In extreme forms, child labor involves children being enslaved, separated from families, exposed to hazardous conditions and left to fend for themselves on the streets (http://www.ilo.org/ipec/facts/lang--en/index.htm). Child labor is primarily found in informal, unregulated or illegal sectors of the economy. Children are vulnerable to exploitation because of lack of maturity and have little knowledge of their rights.

Just like sex trafficking and child labor, immigrant smuggling involve people who are immigrants and non-residents to the country they are being smuggled into. Most men are victims to immigrant smuggling. Often times victims are promised a good job with good pay and board. Once lured the victims have no way to returning home because everything they have owned has been stolen. Instead of the good job and pay, the victims were promised, they end up working 12+ hour shifts with basically no pay and have bad living conditions. The United States Department of State’s trafficking in Persons Report approximated 4 million to 27 million people are trafficked in a given time (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-05-12/men-are-victims-of-trafficking-too)