Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery that Poses a National and International Security Risk

Human trafficking has been entwined into the structure of governments, arms trade, drug trade, and even spreads as far as terrorism. For many years it has been a fact that the money that has been made by selling other humans to the highest bidder. It is also known that the organized crime operations generate one of the most profitable resources to the organization. These organizations use this money for theirs or other’s crime and end up in the hands of drug lords. Drug lords, in order to promote their own business give money to support terrorist groups and activities. Security after September 11, 2001 has recognized human trafficking as a national and international security risk.

The US Congress ratified the 13th Amendment of The Constitution which lays out that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist with the United States.# We are to the point that no country can escape this lucrative business from operating within their country. Traffickers on our land are stalking anyone, especially children. According to the U.S. State Department Trafficking in Person Report of 2009 there are at least 12.3 million people from children to adults that are in forced labor, bonded labor, commercial sexual servitude.# 20,000 of these people are trafficked over the U.S. borders single-handedly.# The most profound fact of human trafficking is that the half of all trafficking victims are under the age of eighteen. In the history book you can see how slave owners controlled there slaves and likewise these modern day slave owners use the same techniques of violence, intimidation, physical restraints, and threats. It is hard to compare the destructiveness of the past slave owners and the modern human traffickers but “Human trafficking ...

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