Houston Texas has highest number of human trafficking victims nation-wide

“Texas is the second highest in the nation for number of calls to the National Human Trafficking Resources Center.”

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In 2015, there were 330 cases of human trafficking in Texas. Most of the victims were women and more than one hundred were minors.

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Human Trafficking A Concern As Truckers Get Trained To Help Stop Growing Crisis In America

Human Trafficking A Concern As Truckers Get Trained To Help Stop Growing Crisis In America

 Human trafficking is the second highest revenue generating criminal activity in the world. Each year it generates over $32 billion for those who are involved in enslaving others. The toll is actually much higher though, as 99 percent of those who are sold into the modern day slavery will never escape. Although some of those who are sold end up as laborers, more than half are women and girls who end up in the sex slave trade. Now the nation’s truckers are getting involved to stop the problem, while state governments are taking action to put an end to this modern day slavery.

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When Sex Trafficking Goes Unnoticed in America

Many cases go unreported, making it a difficult crime for law enforcement personnel to spot.


How do you identify a sex-trafficking victim? How do you find the estimated 1.5 million trafficking victims in North America when such cases go largely undetected or unreported?
It’s an issue with which law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. continually struggle. Detective Bill Woolf with the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force has experienced this first hand. Over the course of his tenure, he’s interviewed over 300 victims. In many cases, those who have been exploited believe that they are offenders, Woolf told me. “They fear law enforcement…because they’re technically committing a crime and that is prostitution,” he said.

• Priscilla Alvarez
• 10:07 AM ET for The Atlantic reports here