2. Human Trafficking is highly profitable for traffickers,
reaping an estimated $150 billion annually, taxpayers
and legitimate businesses suffer as a result.
6. The International Labor Organization says agricultural
workers are among the most vulnerable for human
trafficking.
7. “Some 1,000 workers from Laos were trafficked to
Oahu via a B-2 visitor visa scam over the last decade,
forced to work off their debt to traffickers—as much as
$25,000 each.”
--Malia Zimmerman
9. “It’s hard to quantify but, by our estimates, the number
of females trafficked for sex in Hawaii each year is
most likely in the thousands,” says Kathryn Xian, the
founder and head of Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery.
10. Once they are captured by traffickers, the victims are
beaten, raped and forced to work as prostitutes. The
traffickers may threaten them that their families will be
killed if they try to run away.
12. Sex Trafficking: “In Hawaii, girls as young as 11 years old
are recruited from schools, beaches and malls through a
sophisticated network of pimps and traffickers.”-Malia
Zimmerman
13. Hawaii Child Labor: Workers under the age of 18 are
considered minors for purposes of employment. Minors are
barred from hazardous occupations declared hazardous by
law or regulation.
Labor trafficking can be made to look like an employment agreement but one where the worker starts with a debt to repay (usually brutal conditions) only to find that repayment of the loan is impossible. Then their enslavement becomes permanent.