Human Trafficking: A Global Problem

Prostitution. Servitude. Forced Labor.

Each year innocent men, women and children are exploited in human trafficking schemes
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, is a leader in the global fight against trafficking.
By targeting trafficking organizations while providing support to victims, ICE is working to dismantle the criminal infrastructure behind human trafficking.

Common Trafficking Indicators

• Victim does not have ID or travel documents.
• Victim has been coached in talking to law enforcement and immigration officials.
• Victim is in forced labor situation or sex trade.
• Victim's salary is garnished to pay off smuggling fees
• Victim is denied freedom of movement.
• Victim or family is threatened with harm if escape is attempted.
• Victim is threatened with deportation or arrest. or slavery.
• Victim has been harmed or denied food, water, sleep or medical care.
• Victim is denied contact with friends or family.
• Victim is not allowed to socialize or attend.religious services.

Trafficking vs.Smuggling

Human Trafficking is defined as:

• Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act is younger than 18; or
• the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.

Human Smuggling is defined as:

• the importation of people into the United States involving deliberate evasion of immigration laws. This offense includes bringing illegal aliens into the country, as well as the unlawful transportation and harboring of aliens already in the United States.