the awareness of the human trafficking in the state increased leading to the recognition of the need for additional training and collaboration among the parties entrusted with the law enforcement. As a result to this urge

legislation in the year 2009 was enacted creating the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task force whose primary purpose was to coordinate a statewide response to the human trafficking (Busch-Armendariz et al. 2016). The task force is mandated to increase collaboration among the law enforcement agencies

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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 department categorizes human trafficking into two major classes that include involuntary servitude and sex trafficking (Farrell et al. 2017). Involuntary servitude involves the impressment of individuals for labor services to which most of the persons are harbored in confining conditions or even treated as actual slaves. Sex trafficking involves the procurement and the use of individuals for commercial sex induced on them through force or coercion.