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Nevertheless, the fatality of human trafficking acquired some main characteristics that makes this person appealing to the trafficker in accordance to the aimed trade that they are being employed -- for female victims, this may varies from simply being female, or being beautiful or having exotic characteristics, to possessing skills to operate a sewing machine quickly; or for men, having massive physical strength or simply age are often main characteristics; in both instancesm the victim is to be expected to have some defenselessness that will make him/her be effortless to ensnare with ideas of exciting city life and job prospects (Iselin & Adams, 2003).
Lined up opposed to the traffickers is a collection of federal, state and local government agencies, joined forces with an unusual alliance of private units that involves Christian conservatives and left-of-center immigrant-rights supporters -- the effect is maybe the most extensive anti-trafficking crusade of any nation, however some victim-support groups doubts its efficiency for they challenge that federal criterion presenting aid to victims merely if they take legal action against their traffickers discourages some victims from looking for help and others states that the government has positioned too much importance on sex trafficking and less importance on workplace mistreatments at sweatshops or farms (the Associated Press, 2005).
Kahng (2007) described the experience of two victims -- Katya and Lena, who are two of the predicted 17,000 young women and girls yearly who are mandated to work in the sex industry in the U.S. By organized criminals; Kahng mentioned that the director of investigations for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), Marcie Forman, said that "Chicago, Houston, St. Paul, Minnesota, these crimes are happening in every community in America big and small, we're talking about money here. Millions of dollars and...
They think of them as dollars and cents."
In February 2005, after months of preparation and at last confessing to a customer from the strip club, Katya and Lena was able to escape and were taken to the FBI and ICE, the effect of their flight came into the seizure of Alex Maksimenko and Michael Aronov, both of whom pleaded guilty and are serving time in federal prison for their crimes (Kahng, 2007).
Iselin & Adams (2003) added that the human traffickers can build income at various ends along the trafficking route; the initial stage and succeeding traffickers might create income immediately from the trade of the victims -- whichever to a higher level trafficker or to a place for exp loitation such as a brothel or factory.
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