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Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking is a illegal system that transport someone into an unfortunate predicament of exploitation. This includes unwanted prostitution, forced labor and marriage. Human trafficking is known as modern day slavery that tend to affect females more so than men. 7,126 females has reported being sex trafficked while for males 1,137 has reported a case of being trafficked. According to 11 Facts About Human Trafficking. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-human-trafficking. " It's estimated that internationally there are 20 million and 40 million people in modern slavery today. However, assessing the full scope of human trafficking is difficult." In 2018 a lone there has been 10,949 cases that have been reported. The United States and Puerto Rico has approximately 1,499 cases involving human trafficking, while in foreign regions there are only 1,237 cases of sex trafficking which is the largest form of human trafficking not withstanding labor trafficking. On the other hand, people that tend to get entangled into human trafficking are normally trying to escape poverty to support their families and in-search for a better way to live life. Often times they are promised a high paying job just to later find out it was a scammed to lore them into being trafficked and become forced laborers. The biggest misconception about human trafficking is that it occurs only to immigrants fleeing from one region to the next, when in all reality it can happen to anyone.