General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: German insurance firm rewards top employees — with an orgy [View all]LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)pretty much every country? The quote is from the U.S. State Dept. Trafficking in Persons report.
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2011/164231.htm
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2011/164232.htm
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2011/164233.htm
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Tier 1)
The United States is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor, debt bondage, document servitude, and sex trafficking. Trafficking occurs for commercial sexual exploitation in street prostitution, massage parlors, and brothels, and for labor in domestic service, agriculture, manufacturing, janitorial services, hotel services, hospitality industries, construction, health and elder care, and strip club dancing.
Combined federal and state human trafficking information indicates more sex trafficking than labor trafficking investigations and prosecutions, but law enforcement identified a comparatively higher number of labor trafficking victims as such cases uncovered recently have involved more victims. U.S. citizen victims, both adults and children, are predominantly found in sex trafficking; U.S. citizen child victims are often runaways, troubled, and homeless youth. Foreign victims are more often found in labor trafficking than sex trafficking. In 2010, the number of female foreign victims of labor trafficking served through victim services programs increased compared with 2009. The top countries of origin for foreign victims in FY 2010 were Thailand, India, Mexico, Philippines, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic.