![]() Importation of people into the United States involving deliberate evasion of immigration laws.Human smuggling centers on transportation and is generally defined as: Recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age or.Human trafficking centers on exploitation and is generally defined as: Human trafficking and human smuggling are distinct criminal activities, and the terms are not interchangeable. ![]() ![]() We recognize that men, women and children that are encountered in brothels, sweat shops, massage parlors, agricultural fields and other labor markets may be forced or coerced into those situations and potentially are trafficking victims. Traffickers frequently take away the victims' travel and identity documents, telling them that if they attempt to escape, the victims or their families back home will be harmed, or the victims' families will assume the debt. Victims often find themselves in a foreign country and cannot speak the language. Many of these victims are lured from their homes with false promises of well-paying jobs instead, they are forced or coerced into prostitution, domestic servitude, farm or factory labor or other types of forced labor. These victims are trafficked for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. Department of State, the United States is a destination country for thousands of men, women, and children trafficked from all areas of the world. In fact, ICE is one of the primary federal agencies responsible for combating human trafficking.Īccording to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforces a wide range of crimes related to border security, including investigations of human smuggling and human trafficking.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |