HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND TRANSPORTATION

The purpose of this article is to (1) explain what human trafficking is and what it is not; (2) discuss what is being done about human trafficking on an international level and domestic transportation level; and (3) present potential solutions to help curtail the crime of human trafficking.2 HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACROSS NORTH AMERICA A. Statistics from the Justice Department. Some of the traffickers charged were even United States government employees ranging from a corrections officer and a law enforcement officer to a U.S. Navy Seaman.4 Additionally, Belize, which is a worldwide destination for child sex tourism, draws child sex tourists primarily from the United States.5 Further, in the words of the 2018 Report on Human Trafficking: "The United States is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, transgender individuals, and children-both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals-subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor. On the contrary, she had her own car, her own room, her own bathroom, a closet full of clothes, a fridge full of food, more beauty products and jewelry than she could keep track of and parents and extended family who loved her deeply. [...]she saw her parents love as coercive, manipulative and limiting and longed to "escape" into the "freedom" of doing whatever came naturally and what came naturally, because of her history of trauma and abuse, was to rush headlong into more trauma and abuse. Because CC's sense of value and worth had been so eroded by the trauma and abuse she endured, her normal childhood development was stunted, even good memories were twisted and she leaned into pain.