Bradbury: Human Trafficking

The film "Human Trafficking" deals with a modern form of slavery: forced prostitution. This hushed up illegal activity takes place today right here in America. Women are lured by attractive men into getting passports and then the girls are whisked away to foreign places to be used as items of sexual pleasure. The women are essentially turned into a product, to be owned, sold, and bought. Most of them come from the former Soviet Union, a place where work is scarce and hard times abound. Sex is an everlasting resource. Although young girls and attractive women are the prime target of these malicious predators, oftentimes little boys are kidnapped as well, as portrayed in the film.
Why do few women ever live to tell their tale? The threat that keeps them to stay is not necessarily one of a physical nature. Their families are threatened to be killed or physically harmed and this threat keeps the sex slaves in line. While there are divisions of America's police force that investigate illegals in the states that are forced into prostitution, many young women are never found.  The American government, in my opinion, should be able to better prevent abductions into human trafficking rings, simply because of their access to advanced technology.  ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is a division of the US government that's goals include targeting human trafficking rings and sex slavery.  According to their website, most of their recent investigations have been domestic, not international.  They state on their website that they are "serious about ending human trafficking".  Hopefully in the near future, their efforts will start proving more effective, and in the future, may even eradicate sex slavery completely.

If one of my close friends or relatives were abducted into a human trafficking ring, my first reaction would be to try to find them, or at least to find someone who could.  Liam Neeson's character in "Taken" comes to mind for me; this is the type of person I would try to contact if necessary, someone who would almost literally go to the ends of the world to save the victim.  Knowing the low statistics of women found after abduction, I would employ anyone possible in addition to the Federal government in hopes of increasing the chances.  I would probably pay any amount of money desired.