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Human Tra)cking Facts

Vulnerabilities Tra-ckers Control Survivors

Who is vulnerable? Human tra-cking can happen to anyone but some people are more vulnerable than others. Signi<cant risk factors include recent migration or relocation, substance use, mental health

concerns, involvement with the child welfare system and being a runaway or homeless youth. Often, tra-ckers identify and leverage their victims’ vulnerabilities in order to create dependency.

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Locations of human tra/cking situations in the United States in 2020.

Additional Information

Child Sex Trafficking In complex and frightening times, it’s natural that the world seems like a more dangerous place for our children than ever before. Understanding the realities of child sex tra-cking will help you to not only keep your own children safe, but to become an effective advocate for the safety of all children and families in your community.

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Human Trafficking Rumors Your social media feed <lls up with terrifying stories of children being snatched off the streets by tra-ckers, packaged in shipping crates or auctioned off online and sold to the highest bidder. Sometimes these stories are spread by well-meaning people who are truly concerned. Other times, they are being put forward by organizations and individuals with other agendas.

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#SaveTheChildren Questions and Answers Beginning in the summer of 2020, complex child sex tra-cking schemes began circulating online and igniting the use of #SaveTheChildren. The barrage of misinformation, hashtags and online chatter has left many people who care deeply about this issue confused about what to believe, and how to help.

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Human Tra)cking Myths

Myth

Human trafficking is always or usually a violent crime.

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Reality

The most pervasive myth about human tra-cking is that it often involves kidnapping or

physically forcing someone into a situation. In reality, most tra-ckers use psychological

means such as, tricking, defrauding, manipulating or threatening victims into

providing commercial sex or exploitative labor.

Myth

All human trafficking involves sex.

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Reality

Human tra-cking is the use of force, fraud or coercion to get another person to provide labor or commercial sex. Worldwide, experts believe

there are more situations of labor tra-cking than of sex tra-cking, but there is much wider awareness of sex tra-cking in the U.S. than of

labor tra-cking.

Myth

Traffickers target victims they don’t know.

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Reality

Many survivors have been tra-cked by romantic partners, including spouses, and by family

members, including parents.

Myth

Only undocumented foreign nationals get trafficked in the

United States.

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Reality

Polaris has worked on thousands of cases of tra-cking involving foreign national survivors

who are legally living and/or working in the United States. These include survivors of both

sex and labor tra-cking.

Myth

Only women and girls can be victims and survivors of sex

trafficking.

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Reality

Men and boys are also victimized by sex tra-ckers. LGBTQ boys and young men are seen as particularly vulnerable to tra-cking.

Myth

Human trafficking only happens in illegal or underground

industries.

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Reality

Human tra-cking cases have been reported and prosecuted in industries including

restaurants, cleaning services, construction, factories and more.

Myth

Human trafficking involves moving, traveling or

transporting a person across state or national borders.

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Reality

Human tra-cking is often confused with human smuggling, which involves illegal border

crossings. In fact, the crime of human tra-cking does not require any movement whatsoever.

Survivors can be recruited and tra-cked in their own home towns, even their own homes.

Myth

If the trafficked person consented to be in their initial

situation, then it cannot be human trafficking or against

their will because they “knew better.”

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Reality

Initial consent to commercial sex or a labor setting prior to acts of force, fraud, or coercion

(or if the victim is a minor in a sex tra-cking situation) is not relevant to the crime, nor is

payment.

Myth

People being trafficked are physically unable to leave their

situations/locked in/held against their will.

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Reality

That is sometimes the case. More often, however, people in tra-cking situations stay for reasons that are more complicated. Some lack

the basic necessities to physically get out – such as transportation or a safe place to live.

Some are afraid for their safety. Some have been so effectively manipulated that they do not

identify at that point as being under the control of another person.

Myth

Labor trafficking is only or primarily a problem in developing countries.

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Reality

Labor tra-cking occurs in the United States and in other developed countries but is reported at

lower rates than sex tra-cking.

Myth

All commercial sex is human trafficking.

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Reality

All commercial sex involving a minor is legally considered human tra-cking. Commercial sex

involving an adult is human tra-cking if the person providing commercial sex is doing so against his or her will as a result of force, fraud

or coercion.

Myth

People in active trafficking situations always want help

getting out.

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Reality

Every tra-cking situation is unique and self- identi<cation as a tra-cking victim or survivor

happens along a continuum. Fear, isolation, guilt, shame, misplaced loyalty and expert

manipulation are among the many factors that may keep a person from seeking help or

identifying as a victim even if they are, in fact, being actively tra-cked.

Statistics

In 2021, 10,359 situations of human tra-cking were reported to the U.S. National Human Tra-cking Hotline involving 16,554 individual victims. Shocking as these numbers are, they are likely only a fraction

of the actual problem.

2021 STATISTICS

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