Human Trafficking In Michigan
Human Trafficking in Michigan
Just imagine, a young girl from Mexico being sold off by her mother of six to an older man in the United States, just so her mother can have some money to provide for the rest of her family. It is pretty vivid to say the rest that might happen to this girl, but once the man is done using the young girl for whatever reason, he sells her off to another man and the girl is forever lost into the human trafficking industry. Human trafficking is a problem facing poverty stricken people that needs to be eliminated by educating kids in Michigan.
Human trafficking is a trade in humans for forced labor, sex, and removal of tissue and organs. Human trafficking happens all over the world and is most commonly looked at in …show more content…
The victims of sex trafficking are typically younger girls who fall into an older man’s trap of making false promises to young girls that are having a tough time in life. Trafficking men and women spot vulnerable victims usually online and through other connections of people involved in the industry. Detective Sgt. Edward Price with the Michigan State Police said, “We actually spend most of our time as a task force outside of the big cities and in the suburbs because that’s where they are getting their victims from (4).” And another common form of trafficking is labor trafficking. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) defines labor trafficking as: “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” (4). As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services restates, the three forms of trafficking labor are bonded labor, forced labor and child …show more content…
Growing up, kids learn not to talk to strangers and how to stop-drop-and roll, but they never learn about human trafficking or even their human rights. Kids need to be taught early on about scenarios involving human trafficking, how to avoid traffickers, what to do in a situation, or even witnessing someone being trafficked because it can happen to anyone. Michiganders are oblivious to human trafficking, that is why educating and spreading the word about human trafficking will bring more power to strengthen the 13th amendment. Michigan.gov emphasizes, “The U.S. Constitution 's 13th Amendment guarantees that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist. Attorney General Schuette, as the top law enforcement officer in Michigan, remains dedicated to protecting our children and upholding our Constitution to guarantee fundamental freedom for all
Just imagine, a young girl from Mexico being sold off by her mother of six to an older man in the United States, just so her mother can have some money to provide for the rest of her family. It is pretty vivid to say the rest that might happen to this girl, but once the man is done using the young girl for whatever reason, he sells her off to another man and the girl is forever lost into the human trafficking industry. Human trafficking is a problem facing poverty stricken people that needs to be eliminated by educating kids in Michigan.
Human trafficking is a trade in humans for forced labor, sex, and removal of tissue and organs. Human trafficking happens all over the world and is most commonly looked at in …show more content…
The victims of sex trafficking are typically younger girls who fall into an older man’s trap of making false promises to young girls that are having a tough time in life. Trafficking men and women spot vulnerable victims usually online and through other connections of people involved in the industry. Detective Sgt. Edward Price with the Michigan State Police said, “We actually spend most of our time as a task force outside of the big cities and in the suburbs because that’s where they are getting their victims from (4).” And another common form of trafficking is labor trafficking. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) defines labor trafficking as: “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” (4). As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services restates, the three forms of trafficking labor are bonded labor, forced labor and child …show more content…
Growing up, kids learn not to talk to strangers and how to stop-drop-and roll, but they never learn about human trafficking or even their human rights. Kids need to be taught early on about scenarios involving human trafficking, how to avoid traffickers, what to do in a situation, or even witnessing someone being trafficked because it can happen to anyone. Michiganders are oblivious to human trafficking, that is why educating and spreading the word about human trafficking will bring more power to strengthen the 13th amendment. Michigan.gov emphasizes, “The U.S. Constitution 's 13th Amendment guarantees that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist. Attorney General Schuette, as the top law enforcement officer in Michigan, remains dedicated to protecting our children and upholding our Constitution to guarantee fundamental freedom for all