what are traffickers??

Answer 1

These days we use the expression trafficer for people who transport something illegal: drugs, diamonds, and people. These are today's slave traders, but the slaves often have to pay for themselves first. People are jettisoned or abandoned whenever the trafficers find them inconvenient. Some are left to die in deserts or suffocate in hot, crowded trailers and cargo containers. Then they are delivered to sweat shops or farm fields where someone again pays the trafficers.

Answer 2

Smugglers & Traffickers

“Madam” Imports Mexican Teens to Work as Prostitutes: On July 1, 2004, Maria de Jesus Valle-Maldonado, a Mexican national who was the “madam” of a Los Angeles brothel where about a dozen young women and girls as young as 14 years old worked as prostitutes, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to import aliens for the purpose of prostitution and other immigration violations. Valle-Maldonado admitted that she recruited young women in Mexico and paid for them to be smuggled to her Los Angeles brothel to work as prostitutes. She is the fourth person to be convicted of federal charges resulting from an ICE investigation that uncovered the Los Angeles brothel. On November 1, she was sentenced to 4 ½ years in federal prison.

Guilty Pleas in Child Trafficking Case: On October 10, 2003, defendant Maricela Martinez-Uresti pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of children and human smuggling violations. The co-defendant, Violeta Juanita De Hoyos-Hernandez, pleaded guilty to human smuggling violations. The investigation by ICE agents in San Antonio, Texas, revealed that Martinez-Uresti executed employment contracts with minor females and their parents, falsely representing that the minors would work in her restaurant to repay the $1,500 smuggling fee. Once the girls reached the United States, they were forced against their will to work as prostitutes.

One-Year-Old Girl Held Ransom by Human Smugglers: On March 10, 2004, human smugglers on the Arizona border assaulted a Mexican female and kidnapped her one-year-old daughter. ICE agents located the father of the child in Ohio and found that the kidnappers were demanding $500 ransom from him for her release. Undercover ICE agents worked with the father to arrange a meeting with the kidnappers in Arizona. ICE agents arrested two individuals at the meeting, one of who led them to a home in Douglas, Arizona, where the baby was found and rescued. Another individual was arrested at the Douglas location..

Women Sentenced for Smuggling Undocumented Teens to Work as Prostitutes:On August 7, 2003, two female Mexican nationals were sentenced to 210 months in prison in Newark, New Jersey, for luring four teenaged Mexican girls to the United States and holding them captive as prostitutes in a brothel in Plainfield, N.J. The sentences were the first to be handed down under the Trafficking and Victims Protection Act, which was enacted in 2000. The two women sentenced were among a total of six defendants who have pleaded guilty as a result of the ICE investigation into the New Jersey-based human trafficking ring.

Irvine Couple Charged for Holding Egyptian Girl as Domestic Slave: Ahmed Ewis-abd Motelib, 41, were indicted in March on involuntary servitude charges for allegedly enslaving a 12-year-old girl in their garage for two years and forcing her to work as a domestic servant for their family. The couple, who were married at the time of the alleged offense, are accused of conspiring to hold the victim in involuntary servitude and obtain her services by force and coercio