
Human Trafficking
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The Dangers of Bonded Labor in the US
This is a massive percentage of migrant workers are operating under some form of paying off debt, because who in a developing country has money for a plane ticket? Like this is how people do this. But that actually isn't necessary for it to be trafficking. The definition of trafficking is simply working to pay off a debt. That's bonded labor. You're paying off a bond. Okay. So now you've got these numbers that go around about like 40 million people in the world are trafficked,. but it's like, first of all, 14 million of those are in forced marriages - which I'm not wild about, but are also very different than sort of modern day slavery.
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