Human Trafficking

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An escalating problem illustrating that slavery is not dead. We live in an age when slavery is on the rise. This problem should receive more focus.

Human trafficking is promoted both in the United States and abroad by our lax border security, and by our subsidizing of foreign criminal enterprises and tyrannies.

External Resources

• Operation Underground Railroad
• Polaris Project
• Ben Lockhart, "Man gets jail time for attempted recruitment of 15-year-old into prostitution", KSL, 19 Jul 2016
• Pat Reavy, "71 arrested in Utah in anti-human trafficking operation", KSL, 13 Jul 2016
• "Teens as young as 12 keep vanishing from NYC streets, forced prostitution feared", Fox News, 30 Jun 2016