Stolen Voices (human Trafficking)

Stolen voices are the victims of human trafficking. Human trafficking is taking, concealing, harboring, kidnapping, transporting or receipt of a person. Victims of trafficking are normally forced into hard labor, prostitution, and pornography. Traffickers use various techniques to control their victims and get the victims to do what they want without trying to escape or contact family members. The driven purpose behind human trafficking is the demand for cheap labor. Trafficking is a criminal business and this market for indenture servants or what is known as the common day slave trade; will continue to grow unless everybody, men and women take responsibility for the world they live in and educate the children that being human is a beautiful gift from God and being humane is an important part of our civil rights and it does not come with a price tag, and it is not for sale.

A spokesperson from the Department of Labor Dr. Stacker, M. (2006) states that The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 was designed to increase protection for all trafficked persons in the United States. The problem is identifying these individuals so that they can be afforded protection. Traffickers will use various techniques to control or scare their victims in submission, money is time and any means necessary will be used control their victims.

California, Florida, Washington DC and New York are considered some of the most trafficked places in the US. Today over 15 thousand people are being trafficked in the United States annually. U.S citizens trafficked in within the US is even higher. It is hard to get an exact number of people being trafficked in local areas, but local agencies can tell you that the problem is huge in your area. Ideally, you need to know the number of persons trafficked locally, the number of victims presenting as emergency care patients, and the number of survivors who escaped because of hospital intervention says Dr. Richardson, L (2010).

Traffickers have some many ways to keep their victims in fear and enslaved some of them will use debt bonding, where they hold a financial obligation over their heads. Many of these victims are looking for a way out of their own poverty, when a trafficker approaches them with dream of a life time it will almost always come with a cost, one that the victims will not be able to afford. Some traffickers will tell the victims that they can take them to the United States where they will work for rich people or in an industry that will pay them $10.00 an hour and for the victim that is a lot of money, but, to get there it will cost $5,000 or more. The victim does not have this type of money and the traffickers knows this he will offer another impassable deal, the trafficker will tell the victim that he or she can work off the debt and still make money and send it back home to his/her family. Since the victim is so hard pressure to leave poverty behind them,