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Human Trafficking in The USMain MenuAboutWhat Is Human Trafficking?Where it's happeningLaws and Notable EventsWhat You Can DoSourcesMorgan McMullenbcd947c897aa274a87a2941ca135d9637e90f7a0
One major organization that collects data on human trafficking in the US is Polaris. Their namesake comes from the North Star that guided slaves to freedom in the US. Polaris often refers to human trafficking as modern-day slavery, because that is in reality what it is. People enslaved with no way out.
The data for these graphs is from Polaris' website, from their 2017 report.
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