Distinguishing Human Smuggling from Human Trafficking

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According to UNODC (United Nation Office on Drug and Crime) which bases its estimates on national statistic, 22,000 victims were come about in 2006. As “smuggling” and “Human trafficking” may seem to be the same thing, they are actually relatively different, some victims come out and tell their stories, and those stories are never the same.
As human smuggling is attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person across and international border. This generally occurs with the consent of the people and after being smuggled they no longer speak to the smuggler after they enter into the country, it has become a result that the people that are illegally entering into the united states are smuggled and not trafficked. Smuggling can be deadly, …show more content…

Rebekah’s sister lived in Atlanta, Georgia when Rebekah thought she was going to come to her rescue, then everything started to go downhill. As time passed, Rebekah said she survived after being beaten by a man that she trusted, and she loved, but in the beginning it wasn’t like that. This man by the name of Beau, taught her how to dance, how to be proper and how to present herself in a respectful manner. Although Beau was after something else. As the two were talking in the kitchen at the time, Beau told Rebekah that he had people there and she was going to sleep with them, Beau advised her that she could do it willingly or not. After a while he wanted her to recruit some girls because her body was no longer commanding “top of the line” so she was sold. The girls were between the ages of 12 and 16 years old. Within a week she lured in about 60 girls, everything changed when one night she heard a voice, she believed it was from a higher power, she stated that “I looked in the mirror and I just knew, you 're either going to die having sex or die with a bullet in the back of your head, You need to pick one. And I picked the bullet," Her step father then came to her rescue, and then went to job corps. At job corps she met the love of her life which was also a student, who is her husband

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