Human Trafficking Has Many Faces

When you think of “slavery” what comes to mind?

You probably think of people from 200 years ago picking cotton down south, getting whipped and beaten if their master doesn’t like how much they picked. Right?

On a previous post, Sam pointed out the many faces of Human Trafficking today. Here is what he wrote:

Here, near the border with Mexico, human trafficking has many faces, many of them disguises. For some, it is the live-in 24/7 “house-keeper/child care provider/cook” who never earns enough to pay off her employer who brought her to this country. For some it is the “wife” (who matches the previous description” and is also expected to perform “her marital duties”).

For some, it is the Tijuana prostitute whose primary customers come from North of the border. Ride the trolley any afternoon to the border and you will probably see some of her “customers”.

For some it is the group of Hispanics waiting alongside the road for people to pick them up to work for cash. Some of them are here legally. Many are trying to pay off the person who smuggled them into the country and who is providing them subpar housing at above-market prices. When we pick them up and pay them a few dollars for their work and threaten to call immigration when they complain, we too are complicit.

Human trafficking masquerades as meeting our needs at a price we can afford in a tough economy. It is one of those issues most of us would like to pretend does not exist, at least not where we live.

There are millions of such human trafficking victims around the world today, and even here in the United States, “the land of the free.”

What are you doing to stop modern day slavery?

To learn more about Human Trafficking and sex slavery, check out some of these posts:

Human Trafficking Posts

1. Sex Slaves
2. Would You Fight Slavery?
3. Rescue Russian Sex Slaves
4. Rescue Russian Girls from Sex Slavery
5. Stop Her Nightmare
6. Another Girl Rescued Today
7. Girls for Sale
8. Goal Reached!
9. I Want to be a Prostitute
10. $52,000 raised!
11. 31 Million Sex Slaves
12. Renting Lacy
13. More Than Rice
14. Human Trafficking Ring Busted
15. The Other Big Game
16. Sex Slavery, Planned Parenthood, and Your Tax Dollars
17. How to Minister to Prostitutes
18. Wisconsin Woman Held as Sex Slave in Brooklyn
19. Coked-Up Whore
20. Human Trafficking has Many Faces
21. Into an India Brothel
22. You Need a Girl?
23. Human Trafficking Media
24. The Son of God is Selling Children
25. My Girls Raised $300 to help stop Human Trafficking
26. Rape for Profit
27. Human Trafficking Statistics
28. Help Rescue Girls from Forced Prostitution

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