San Francisco has become one of the largest financial centers for human trafficking, and furthermore human trafficking has grown into an 8 billion dollar international business. Mayor Gavin Newsom is quoted as saying “It makes me sick to my stomach.” “Girls are being forced to come to this country their families back home are threatened and they are being raped repeatedly over and over.”
Every year women are lured into the United States with the promise of a modeling or acting career only to be forced into prostitution and extorted for money. According to US Department of Justice statistics? between 14,500 and 17,500 people fall victim to trafficking yearly. 50% of those victims are children, and 46% of those victims are trafficked into prostitution and the others are force into industrial, agricultural, or other industries. The statistics also cited that the East Asia/Pacific Region is the largest source of the trafficking in people to the US yearly.
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