Matt Parker

And they put them in that truck and then they never see their daughter again in often cases.

And they drive them to a large city and they force them into slavery, sex slavery.

And that's called human trafficking.

Human trafficking, it looks like so many different things.

And what I'm describing is a pretty extreme form of it.

But a lot of it mirrors this idea of labor migration.

You know, this young girl or boy is offered a job.

It's a town away or a country away or a long bus ride away.

And they arrive at that destination for the job.

And all of a sudden, the terms of employment change.

The trafficker says, well, hey, now you owe me for that bus ride or the plane ticket or some terms that were previously agreed upon change.

I've even met women who have said, look, I knew I was going to come to this country and do sex work.

But I was promised it would be with executives, wealthy men in nice hotels, and turns out none of that was true.

I have to walk the street and go with whomever.

Jeez.

And so they changed the terms.

Well, that's human trafficking.

But you look at it from the outside in and from a law enforcement perspective or civilian perspective, and it looks like, oh, yeah, she's on that street corner because she wants to be there.

Well, not exactly.

That's not exactly what's going on here.