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Sex steeds: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
24.9 M people are trapped in forced slavery, domestic servitude or sex trafficking, many in America. (White House, Jan. 31, 2019)Sex and labor trafficking industry is second only to drug trafficking as the world’s largest criminal industry, according to the International Labour Organization and the nonprofitPolaris Project.The internet was by far the most dominant business model sex traffickers used to solicit buyers of commercial sex (used in 87.7% of sex trafficking cases active in 2018) and was also the most common method for luring victims (used in 42.5% of sex trafficking cases active in 2018). The number of cases involving Backpage dropped 18.3% from 2017, following the shutdown of Backpage in April 2018. (2018 Federal Human Trafficking Report)A national survey by Thornfound of the minors who became victims of sex trafficking in 2015, 55 percent met their traffickers through a website or mobile app. (Survivor's Insights, Thorn, 2018).As many as 21,000 underage children are part of the national sex trade, according to a 2016studyfunded by the Justice DepartmentPer the International Labor Organization, there may be as many as 24.9 million victims of forced labor across the world. Of these, 4.8 million were in forced sexual exploitation.THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary (April 11, 2018)whitehouse.govOver 99 percent of trafficked individuals trapped in forced sexual exploitation are women.THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary (April 11, 2018)whitehouse.govOver 21 percent of those trafficked for sex are children.THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary (April 11, 2018)whitehouse.govIn FY 2017, DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE/HSI) initiated 833 human trafficking cases, resulting in 1,602 arrests and 578 convictions, and identified 518 victims of human trafficking.THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary (April 11, 2018)whitehouse.govSince 2007, the National Human Trafficking Hotline has received reports of 22,191 sex trafficking cases in the United States.THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary (April 11, 2018)whitehouse.govOf the nearly 25,000 runaway children reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, one in seven were likely victims of child sex trafficking.THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary (April 11, 2018)whitehouse.govThe underground sex economy is a multimillion dollar industry. A 2014 Urban Institute study estimated the combined worth of the underground sex economy in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, Seattle, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., to be between $39.9 and $290 million.THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary (April 11, 2018)whitehouse.govReports of suspected.

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