Immigrants - Trafficking Victims

The immigrants often become the victims on trafficking.Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. Victims are often lured with false promises of well-paying jobs or are manipulated by people they trust, but instead are forced or coerced into prostitution, domestic servitude, farm or factory labor, or other types of forced labor.

Here are some stories about the victims:

Elena was 20 years old when a family acquaintance told her she could make ten times as much money in the United States than she could in her small village. She and several other girls were driven across the border through Mexico, and then continued the rest of the way on foot. They traveled four days and nights through the desert, making their way into Texas, then crossing east toward Florida. Finally, Elena and the other girls arrived at their destination, a rundown trailer where they were forced into prostitution until she agreed to do what she was told. She lived under 24-hour. Elena finally made her escape only to be arrested along with her traffickers.






Irma left her home in Batumi to take a job in Turkey as a maid. Despite the promise of opportunity, she found herself exploited at the hands of an abusive host. She was tortured and confined to the house for three months. “I was hardly given any food,” she later said. “In solitary confinement in a room, I had no idea what to do.” Irma managed to escape and was repatriated by the immigration agency to send her home. She still suffers from psychological traumas.





Nana was 35 years old when she left for Turkey for a job as a worker at a factory. For nearly a month, she was abused and beaten by her employers. She told the courts that she was confined to a cellar and forced to work as a slave. She lived in a basement along with other victims, had little water supply or food. Her abusers have been accused of human trafficking, imprisonment, violence, and fraud.