The Treaty Of The 13th Amendment

Since the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution by the states on 6 December 1865 was suppose to be huge celebration for equal rights that recognized all people are created equal and free from slavery. This type of crime committed against humanity was solely directed against certain races, social, or economical classification indifferences in America. However, this explicit 150-year-old constitutional right to remain free continues to be violated daily through out the United States and internationally by the actions of criminal organizations, corporate businesses, and governments with the Human Trafficking epidemic.

My intent is to bring awareness to our communities at the lowest level possible to protect our families against these criminals and organizations that continue to operate freely to manipulate people at all ages, race, gender, social, or economic classification through the means of new modern day slavery tactics that is better known as human trafficking. First, what actually declares Human Trafficking as a crime or conveyed as slavery? According to the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), it defines the term used by the United Nations as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper purpose including forced labor or sexual exploitation. This includes given consent or not by the victim for these actions. (Office of Justice Programs, 2012)

This international accepted definition used by the NIJ for human trafficking provides the legal system a secure parameter of the law to prevent these criminal elements from using the content as a loophole in the law wording to avoid legal ramifications from the justice systems either in America or Internationally. The corrupti...

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...s report points out the lack of control the victims have minimal personal possession of items, no financial connection with legitimate institutions such as banking, credit affiliations, and the lack of actual currency. They often circulate in the public without having proper identification (driver’s license, passports, Visas, or SSN card) with guardians in close proximity of them monitoring their actions and what they say to outside sources. Even when the victims make contact with other people, the conversation capabilities of the victims demonstrate many inconsistencies about their knowledge of time, factors with familiar geographical location and to logically explain themselves in general conversations that bring attention to them. These victims remain in state of confusion due to the physical and psychological circumstances they encounter in each human trafficking