Chapter three Human Trafficking: Issues in Social Justice

Author: Jacob Armstrong

Human trafficking is control over humans: humans buy other humans to work for them. Trafficking became a major issue and social problem in the United States. Trafficking is increasing because it is a good business “the business of selling humans” traffickers make the United States approximately about 32 billion dollars every year. How trafficking works is when traffickers walk to find victims of the street such as homeless, poor, jobless or non-citizen people with no protection or back ground, and who are desperate for money, food and jobs or even for a better life style. This is like a contract or a promise, those traffickers job is based on deception, they work by convincing those people or make them believe that their life will eventually get better but only if they work as hard as they could and do everything they are asked to do and under all circumstances’ they still have to obey and work, even if the job was unsafe, dangerous and pose significant hazard, sometimes diseases and for most times get physically and verbally abused. Although there is no health care or protection for those kind of jobs.

There are five reasons why trafficking is increasing: one is the transformation of individuals; whenever traffickers are done with an individual they transfer him or her to a different country and make money out of them. Second for military needs, traffickers make children work in the military with no training. Third is when parents produce children to sell them for money to survive. Forth is traffickers make billions out of sex when they make women sleep with multiple men each day, and fifth is when traffickers make those humans work in labors that no other human would want to work in because its hazard and unsafe.

Traffickers call those humans reusable or recyclable because they use them over and over again until they are no longer usable for becoming physically and emotionally injured and specially for children under 18 they become not fully developed neither physically or mentally and most likely with diseases.

Some organizations in the United States have worked to end trafficking like the NGO and had been successful but did not get enough support or money from the government, so this organization and all the other ones are very limited. Also the fact that some countries still accept transformation this will make trafficking exist.