Trafficking in Persons Report 2012
[ (2) Whether the government of the country protects victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons and encourages their assistance in the investigation and prosecution of such trafficking, including provisions for legal alternatives to their removal to countries in which they would face retribution or hardship, and ensures that victims are not inappropriately incarcerated, fined, or otherwise penalized solely for unlawful acts as a direct result of being trafficked, including by providing training to law enforcement and immigration officials regarding the identification and treatment of trafficking victims using approaches that focus on the needs of the victims. ]
Link: http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2012/192370.htm
If you read the paragraph above, you will see that the government’s aim is to focus on the needs of the victim. When caught being trafficked, the victim’s best will be kept in mind. This legislation is great news for anti human trafficking organizations everywhere. The focus is the well being of the victims! Not punishment for being placed in an industry they had no control over. Most victims, as I previously stated, are placed into the sex industry at a very young age. They are drugged and brainwashed. By the age of adulthood, the sex industry is all they know. Most will even run back to it. It is important that the law recognizes these adults as victims as well. Laws like these are good things!
Stay tuned for updates on what some organizations are doing to fight for the cause.
zprobinson 
I was curious, what made you want to do a blog about human trafficking? I ask only because most will do blogs on less serious issues. It’s great you are able to support your information with statistics and facts. I didn’t realize human trafficking was so close to home.
I actually became interested in human trafficking towards the end of high school. I saw a movie, entitled Human Trafficking, that really kind of changed my life. It was so eye opening, and really presented a new issue for me that I was unaware of. It showed firsthand what human trafficking was and the law’s role to fight against it. Since then, I’ve had a passion for it and am involved in our campus’s organization, Freedom Movement. Human trafficking is here, Houston being one of the leading cities that harbor victims. I-10 is a major route for victims as well. Though I cannot recall the exact number now, almost every victim affected here in the United States, has at one point, been on I-10.