http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-26/world/mexico.human.trafficking_1_human-trafficking-cartel-human-rights?_s=PM:WORLD
In South American and Central America, people migrate north
towards the United States of America in search of opportunities that could lead
to a better way of life. Many people like Mario Santos embark on this journey
monthly and about 1,600 are beaten, robbed, and placed in human trafficking.
This is not only illegal, but also immoral and a violation of a person’s human
rights. Mario Santos was eight years old when he embarked on his journey from
El Salvador to the United States and he likely never made it. Human trafficking
is one of the most repulsive acts a human being can commit, subjecting another
human being to regular beatings, robbing them of all their belongings, drugging
them, and selling humans as slaves. It violates all human rights by taking away
right to property, physical abuse, considering humans as property, making
people have no self-worth and no hope of survival beyond constant rape and
beatings. Unfortunately, human trafficking is the second largest crime in
Mexico and in my opinion the government doesn’t do enough to try and bring
these cartels down. Mexico spends fifteen billion dollars yearly towards the
effort to stop trafficking but still over fifteen thousand people yearly are
thrown into a life of despair where one can be sold to others for less than
what their watch is worth. Just imagine you are grabbed on the street, with a gun to you back, told to go somewhere, to
never be seen again. The though is horrific. Just imagine, this is happening to
1,600 families monthly in Mexico. Human trafficking is the act of becoming a slave-owner,
forcing someone to be your prisoner. We do not live in a world where the rule
of ‘survival of the fittest’ exists, we are more advanced and intelligent than
this, yet, people succumb to this every day. Hopefully, Mexico can change some
policies, and these atrocities can not only be stopped but prevented.
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