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Distinguishing Human Trafficking and Smuggling

Human smuggling involves the illegal transportation of unauthorized aliens into or within a country for financial gain. It is a crime against the government that ends once the migrant reaches their destination. Human trafficking, on the other hand, involves exploiting a person through force, fraud or coercion for forced labor, slavery or commercial sex acts. It is a crime against the individual where exploitation is ongoing, with no need to cross borders.

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Distinguishing Human Trafficking and Smuggling

Human smuggling involves the illegal transportation of unauthorized aliens into or within a country for financial gain. It is a crime against the government that ends once the migrant reaches their destination. Human trafficking, on the other hand, involves exploiting a person through force, fraud or coercion for forced labor, slavery or commercial sex acts. It is a crime against the individual where exploitation is ongoing, with no need to cross borders.

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Human Smuggling Human Trafficking

Description “Acts or attempts to bring unauthorized “The act of recruiting, harboring, transporting,
aliens to or into the United States, providing, or obtaining a person for forced labor
transport them within the U.S., harbor or commercial sex acts through the use of force,
unlawful aliens, encourage entry of fraud or coercion.” (FinCEN Advisory FIN-2014-
illegal aliens or conspire to commit these A008)
violations, knowingly or in reckless
disregard of illegal status.” (FinCEN “Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is
Advisory FIN-2014-A008) induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which
the person induced to perform such act has not
“…the importation of people into a attained 18 years of age; or
country via the deliberate evasion of
immigration laws. This includes bringing Recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision,
illegal aliens into a country, as well as or obtaining of a person for labor or services,
the unlawful transportation and through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for
harboring of aliens already in a country the purpose of subjection to involuntary
illegally. Some smuggling situations servitude, peonage, debt, bondage, slavery.”
may involve murder, rape, and assault.” (ICE)
(ICE)

Stages  Solicitation  Recruitment or abduction


 Transportation  Transportation
 Payment  Exploitation
- Pay in advance - Forced Labor
- Partial payment - Domestic servitude
- On arrival - Sex trafficking

Characteristics  Involves people choosing to migrate  Involves the use of force or coercion and the
illegally exploitation of victims
 Is limited to illegal migration or the  Includes, but not limited to involuntary
harboring of undocumented aliens servitude, forced labor, debt bondage,
 Involves foreign nationals peonage and sexual exploitation
 The crime involves an illegal border  Anyone can be a victim regardless of origin,
crossing or harboring of someone sex, age, or legal status
that illegally crossed the border  There is no need for a person to cross a
border to be trafficked; individuals can be
trafficked within the borders of a country

Commodity  The service, transportation  The human being

Crime against  The government  The individual

Endpoint  Migrant reaches their destination  None; exploitation is ongoing

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