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Founder of the Polaris Project Gets 2017 Skoll Award
Bradley Myles describes the problems of 25 types and business models of human trafficking.
All the traffickers are in it for the money, and that's where we can get them. $9.5 BILLION (of $32 billion profit from worldwide trafficking) comes from operations carried out in the United States alone. Human trafficking is also the 2nd largest source of illegal income in the world,
Never think trafficking should be left up to the "experts."
Polaris is The North Star, the guide in the Underground Railroad.
Human trafficking is the fastest growing economic sector worldwide of international organized crime.
Are these missing border children dragnetted into this dark world? That's what we need to find out.
Four common U.S. destinations for trafficking are California, Texas, New York and Nevada.
If you think you're seeing trafficking, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) hotline at 1-888-373-7888
or text HELP or INFO to BeFree (233733)