Google says; The practices of slavery and human trafficking are still prevalent in modern America with estimated 17,500 foreign nationals and 400,000 Americans being trafficked into and within the United States every year with 80% of those being women and children.
In the United States, human trafficking tends to occur around international travel-hubs with large immigrant populations, notably California, Texas and Georgia. The U.S. Justice Department estimates that 35,500–170,500 people enter illegally into the country every year.
Backpage was a classified advertising website that had become the largest marketplace for buying and selling sex by the time that federal law enforcement agencies seized it in April 2018.
Wikipedia says - Modern slavery can be quite profitable[12] and corrupt governments tacitly allow it, despite it being outlawed by international treaties such as Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and local laws. Total annual revenues of traffickers were estimated in 2014 to over $150 billion dollars,[13] though profits are substantially lower. American slaves in 1809 were sold for around the equivalent of US$40,000 in today's money.[14] Today, a slave can be bought for $90.[14]
Kevin Bales once said in a TED Talk, “This is an economic crime,” “People do not enslave people to be mean to them; they do it to make a profit.”[15] READ MORE HERE
So what I am hearing once again in my lifetime humans/Americans are making
an easy buck off of the weak and impoverished or vulnerable, turning billions of
dollars out of an escalating and horrific business of human trafficking because
they are themselves weak and too lazy to get a decent job.
Oftentimes, though wealthy victims are just as likely to be targeted, as the
impoverished are. The theft of another's life for sell of sex is cruel, and
needs to be punished with more severe prison sentences; like throw the players
on an anchored ship in the middle of the sea without access to human life ever
again except those who are on that ship with them.
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