National Human Trafficking Awareness Day – 2026

• Recruitment. Recruits are often drawn from foreign countries by several enticing factors, including:
  • The assurance of an excellent employment opportunity.
  • The allure of the “Land of the Free.”
  • More favorable living conditions compared to their home country.
  • Opportunities for career advancement.
  • The possibility of gradually relocating their entire family, beginning with one member.
  • Being lured by a partner to follow him/her to cross the border.
• Recruitment: Where? The recruitment process with small, medium or even large cartels that happens in all of small, medium and large cities. The scene is not limited to, but largely this process will include an auction style scenario whereby promises of “The Good Life” are promised and the recruiters are only going to take a certain amount of recruitees. Demands are fulfilled by several of different types of fraud-style activates, like:
  • Demanding recruits to pay a “fee” to be included. The recruiters are adamant to try and snag as much if not all of a family’s life savings. The persons who give the most are offered “more services” and a better place in line of getting a better job when they arrive in the destination country.
  • By defrauding the recruitee, the family is devastated to the point where they become dependent on the “clan.” With no savings left, they are that much more enticed do what is demanded in the original country, once they are seperated from the recruitee.
• Separation and transportation. Once the “fee'” is paid, the recruited individual will hurriedly be separated from the family. The person is often driven is a van or truck with little or no water, in a very hot and encapsulated vehicle with little or no light or oxygen, without any regard to humanity.
• The border and transfer. Depending on the cartel’s intentions, there are two scenarios. Most of the time in 2010 and prior, the intention of the cartel is to be a “got away,” so that the incidences go undocumented. this scenario may have changed recently due to the Biden administration’s seriously inhumane border policies. Once past the border, the recruited person is driven into or taken by foot to a pre-planned destination.
• The not-so-good life and harboring. Pretty close to the beginning of an introduction to the new land, it becomes quite obvious that the “promised” conditions in the promised land are not of which that was promised. New demands are almost immediately ordered of the recruited person. If the demands are not met, threats to family in the domestic land are made. By doing this, the recruited person suffers duress. I can disappointment given the effort invested in verifying that this would be a genuine job opportunity, but the fact that the recruit doesn’t know the dangers imminent are even way more horrible than imaginable. Often times the individual will be in closed cages and suffer a style of slavery.

• Demands. The human trafficking involves individuals to be subject to the following means of atrocities:
  • Force, including physical and emotional
  • Fraud
  • Being lied to
  • Coercion
  • Exploitation that can manifest in various forms:
  • Forced labor
  • Sexual slavery
  • Commercial sexual exploitation
  • Becoming dependant on many forms of drugs
• Keeping a family separated is not by chance. The cartels know that by keeping the family separated, coercion is way more possible. It makes the following not only possible, but a continuable cycle:
  • Consistent illegal income for the cartel on both ends:
    • The cartel on the homeland end often bilk the family with the promise of reuniting. Sometimes the recruiters will offer a runiting by turning over more recruits.
    • The trafficked person cannot talk or communicate with the family, so the cycle is repeatable without an ability to break the cycle.

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👤 The Breakup:

• The process of being in this horrible situation can be broken by one or more of the following:
  • Police. If the person who has been trafficked is lucky, the police may be of assistance by being at the right place at the right time.
  • Escape. If the person who has been trafficked is able to break free away from and out of the surveillance of the cartel, escape can be obtained, and the person can try to get some type of assistance in the way of asylum or other means of recovery. Sometimes it may not be feasible to return to the original country due to the danger that is imminent in the cartel in that country.This often keeps families separated for years and decades, and sometimes permanently.
  • Rescue. Sometimes a private organization and/or people, persons will aid the rescue of some of the people who have been trafficked.
• The cartel will never stop. It’s really important to note that the person who is part of any one of these rings will need more than luck to obtain a “release” from the chains of that type of slavery.
• Government intervention. With a recently week policy at the Biden administration, I’m pretty sure that this situation could only be worse than in previous decades. It is absolutely paramount that in order to come to aid of such individuals, that we have a strong policy and administration to break up of these militant cartels. The people involved in this type of heinous crime deserve proper law end=forced to put them out of business for good!

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👤 Statistics:

The following are types of common human trafficking recruiter types are listed here:

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👤 A Prayer:

Dear God,
God of liberation, we pray for all those enslaved by human trafficking, and their families. Free them from bondage, heal their wounds, and protect them from further harm. Change the hearts of their oppressors and give them hope for a new, safe beginning. We entrust those affected by human trafficking to you, recognizing your love for all. We pray for those still trapped in terrible situations, asking your Holy Spirit to comfort them in their darkness. Please grant strength to those fighting against traffickers and encourage survivors when they need to testify against their captors.
Amen.

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👤 Resources:

National Human Trafficking Hotline
Languages: English, Spanish
Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Call 888-373-7888
Text INFO to 233733
Official Website: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/