A Skewed Freedom

A great majority of Americans has sung the Star-Spangled Banner before; it demonstrates patriotism and the values in which America was founded for. One line in the national anthem includes, “…[America is] the land of the free.” Freedom and liberty is something that Americans tend to pride themselves with, especially since the United States is most commonly known as “Land of the Free.” Most Americans do not think twice about freedom here in the United States because the first people who discovered America wanted religious and governmental freedom. Most Americans feel that everyone has the freedom and right to do what they want; however, upon closer inspection we see that it is actually untrue for thousands of people. Very few realize that slavery has never truly ended since the Civil War, only taking on the more modern kind—human trafficking.

Freedom is defined as, the liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another. The definition of slavery most commonly applies to African American slaves, who were exploited for their cheap labor. However, in today’s modern society, it is updated to sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is unconsented prostitution. Although it may seem like a rare occurrence, it is actually very common in the United States, with the Bay Area as one of the largest centers of sexual slavery. According to Stephanie Chuang of NBC Bay Area, Kacie Klinnert, a Sacramento native, was abducted from El Dorado Hills, a nearby city of Sacramento, and transported to a hotel in Rocklin. There, she was raped and forced to be a victim of human trafficking. Kacie is just one of the thousands of young women who are victims of sexual slavery; she is just one of the few who got away. Knowing that this modern day slaver...

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...ch year for the purpose of sexual exploitation…50,000 of these 2,000,000 woman are trafficked into the United States each year in a lucrative sex trade industry,” this demonstrates that U.S. laws have not had much effect on prohibiting trafficking in the United States.

With girls out there like Susannah getting tricked into the evil trafficking business everyday, it brings much discomfort because these girls are forced to perform sexual activities and are kept in dingy holes and drugged to keep them from retaliating. All this inhumane torture goes on in the trafficking business, and yet the laws are not helping with eliminating these injustices. With each year, those 50,000 women increase; more and more victims are brought into the United States, forced against their will, or promised false futures of working good jobs to bring money back home to their families.