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Human trafficking, the modern form of slavery, involves the abuse and maltreatment of the most defenseless and feeble members of the world community. Mostly women and children, these victims are trafficked for exploitation and abuse usually across international borders. This heinous criminal activity involves the recruitment, hiding, shipping, acquiring or providing any vulnerable individual for services or labor engaging in forced labor, and service or slavery in any field of industry such as manufacturing, agriculture, prostitution, or coerced domestic service or marriage (mail order brides), debt bondage or peonage.
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SMUGGLING AND TRAFFICKING
Human smuggling and human trafficking are two different things.
Human Smuggling
When an individual is paid to help out another in the illegal crossing of borders, it is considered human smuggling.
Human Trafficking
If a smuggler sells or if individual is forced to work for the smuggler, this crime becomes human trafficking. |
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