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and Jessica Reichert. “”Using US Law-Enforcement Data: Promise and Limits in Measuring Human Trafficking.”” Journal of Human Trafficking 3.1 (2017): 39-60.
forced labor or both. The cruel practices of human trafficking violate the fundamental civil rights and therefore necessitate the need for action to counter the criminal activities. The United States state classify human trafficking into two significant categories that include involuntary slavery and sex trafficking (Farrell et al. 2017). Involuntary slavery involves the coercion of individuals for labor services to which most of the persons are kept in enclosed conditions. Sex trafficking involves the acquisition and the use of individuals for monetary sex induced on them through force.
human trafficking is a violation of the Human Rights as well as the lowering of a person’s dignity and therefore calls for a higher sentence in prison to act as a warning and a lesson to other individuals with similar mindsets. The amendment act of 2008 demands that the Federal Bureau of Investigations to bring forth more details that are related to human trafficking and as well break down the classes of prostitution and the monetalized sex act arrests in the similar crime reports (Santos
2016).
2017). The legislations have added offences for that include being a beneficiary of the coerced labor and the services
forging the age of a lesser individual from under 14 years to under 18 years of age. The law also requires of the posting of the national human trafficking hotline in the overnight lodging establishments that have been deemed a nuisance due to the activities carried out at the premises that may include sex trafficking.
and therefore a huge burden still hinders the implementation of the current laws and regulations. Thus
the national government should come up with a strategy that will ensure adequate provision of resources to combat human trafficking.
as well as the local law enforcement agencies
have a joint role in maintaining and regulating human trafficking within the borders and providing security to its people within the state and federal boundaries (Resnik
2016). The federal government contributes the lump sum of the money to empower the local government to carry out the research and evidence of the cases of human trafficking within their boundaries and bring to justice the culprits of the law. Texas
being one of the states that make the US enjoys this privilege where it gets the money from the national government and uses in pooling up resources that are of significant help to enforcing the law against human trafficking. Some of the resources that are essential to the monitoring and reporting include the human resources that need to travel and carry out the actual law implementation on the ground thus acting as the eyes and ears of the state. The individuals performing this actual implementation need to be paid to perform their duties as expected. Therefore
Texas in the year 2003 introduced a state human trafficking law that made Washington and Texas become ghetto first two states in the nation to make laws that regarded human trafficking as a criminal activity (Butler
2015). The act established for the criminal definitions for the forced services or labor and trafficking. Apart from the definition