What are the Most Common Forms of Human Trafficking?
* SEX TRAFFICKING: The most well-known form of human trafficking is sex trafficking, in which primarily women and children are trafficked, often unwittingly, and sometimes in large numbers, to work in the sex industry at their destination, where they may be confined and abused by their traffickers. The United Nations reports that the U.S. is one of the top three destination countries to which such people are trafficked. International trends show that in industrialized countries (U.S., Europe, Japan) forced labor for commercial sexual exploitation is the predominate form of trafficking. • AGRICULTURAL WORK: Trafficking of migrant agricultural workers is another form prevalent in the United States, in which the illegal status of workers is exploited by their employers by forcing them to work in sub-standard conditions for pay below minimum wages, confined to the fields by threatened or actual violence. Cases involving hundreds of victims have been prosecuted in California, Florida, and u
