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U.S. – World’s Greatest Hotbed of Human Trafficking

 2023.7.31.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/17438

July 30 is the World Day against Trafficking in Persons.

Dozens of international agreements banning slavery were concluded in the past 150 years. But, around the globe today, many people are being reduced to modern slaves and trafficked more than ever before in the whole of human history.

Data shows that across the world, hundreds of thousands of people are being tricked by human traffickers and trafficked to other countries every year. And the criminals are said to be making huge annual profits of about $ 150 bn.

The U.S., which professes to play a “leading role” against human trafficking, has now gained notoriety as the world’s greatest “slave importer” with the largest inflow of victims of human trafficking.

The AP recently carried a story about 4 offenders who were arrested in Texas for having trafficked many foreign immigrants to the U.S. from December 2021 to June 2022.

They were also said to be involved in the “most gruesome case of human trafficking in U.S. history” which shocked the world when over 50 immigrants were found dead in an abandoned train in the suburbs of San Antonio, Texas in June last year.

Today, human traffickers make use of deceptive methods such as offering employment and passports, and even resort to abduction and kidnapping to continue their black market business of buying and selling countless people including women and children as if they were slaves or merchandise. Immigrants who arrived in the U.S. with high hopes thinking it would be “heaven” soon discover it is a living hell.

According to a Global Times report on 19 August 2021, more than 100 000 people are trafficked into the U.S. annually for forced labour with most of them coming from over 40 countries and regions including India, Mexico, Vietnam, Africa, and Central and South America.

These people work like slaves without any protection of labour or employment laws.

Recently, a U.S. Senator said that tens of thousands of children are being subjected to human trafficking in the country and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security admitted the fact that the lost 85,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) released into the U.S. over the last two years are still not tracked down and most of them are being trafficked in labour markets.

This vividly illustrates the dire human trafficking situation of the U.S.

All the above facts prove clearly that the U.S. is the world’s biggest kingdom of human trafficking and human rights violator which has neither the qualifications nor the face to criticise anyone else.

Notwithstanding the dire human trafficking situation of the country, the U.S. poses as a “human rights judge” of the world. It brazenly releases annual “country reports on human trafficking practices” grading the countries according to its own yardstick. The U.S. takes advantage of the release of such reports as an opportunity to even interfere in internal affairs and impose sanctions against the countries of its dislike and misuses human trafficking issue to implement the hegemonic policy.

The U.S. is well advised to remedy its own dire human trafficking situation before using human trafficking issue to realize its hegemonic policy while posing as a “human rights judge”.