The Lucrative Economics of Human Trafficking

Human trafficking, including both labor and sex trafficking, generates residual income for traffickers. The growing and thriving illegal drug industries natural response to sex trafficking was to add it their multiple streams of revenue. Gangs, drug lords and cartels thrive selling drugs and guns. 

Narco gangs like the Zetas — a criminal army founded by defectors from the Mexican military — have diversified their portfolio to include kidnapping, extortion, theft of crude oil, gun running and lucrative human-trafficking networks. It’s impossible to know the exact value of Mexico’s human-trafficking trade, though the U.N. estimates the global industry to be worth $32 billion a year. (Taken from article:  The Mexican Drug Cartels’ Other Business: Sex Trafficking)

People are in business to make money.  Some make it by selling drugs and it works.

Drug bust money mountain.

Guns and ammo from a bust.

          

Let's face it though. Sell a drug. Gone. Sell a gun. Gone. Sell a body. Sell it again. Again. Again. Again. Residual income. It's perfect. They are making money hand over fist. As long as we believe we aren't effected or that we can do nothing; they win!

In reality WE ALL PAY!!!!!

        

So, what is the solution? Preventing. Restoring. Bring Justice. Shared Hope International has worked everyday since their founder, Congresswoman Linda Smith traveled into the heart of the brothel district in Mumbai, India in 1998. There she witnessed the brutal exploitation and sexual slavery of women and children.  She established Shared Hope International to rescue and restore women and children enslaved in sex trafficking. As SHI grew, it became painfully obvious that the United States of America was also a cesspool of the sick and horrific industry of human and sex trafficking. Shared Hope found that it wasn't just women brought here to America or the girls who are kidnapped while on vacation in Europe (see the movie Taken...sad truth in that one). Our girls (AVERAGE!!!!! AGE 12, and growing lower), were being taken right off our safe American streets. Not just the poor and disadvantaged, but rich kids too. Suddenly the pain is on our soil. Families just like those across the globe losing their child. Most are never recovered.

What if your daughter disappeared?!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

There are some obvious obstacles. If there are buyers there will be sellers. Prevention is huge. While we work on prevention we need to rescue and restore victims. We need to fight for tougher laws. Laws that stick!!!!

In closing, make yourself aware. Get educated. Spread the word! Together and only together we can work to end this nightmare. To end human trafficking we must fight for their freedom. Modern day slavery is alive and thriving, men, women, and children (both boys and girls) are trapped. We are their hope and by the grace of God we will free them!