When someone hears the word human trafficking, their mind can go to many places. By definition, human trafficking includes the use of force, coercion, or fraud. Human trafficking is a clandestine business. It is not openly in the public domain or discussed due to its nature. To give you an idea of ​​how profitable this business is, drug trafficking is the only other more profitable market. You might wonder why victims don't come forward and try to escape, but they often fear for their lives. As well as fears of having legal problems or that a language barrier is in place. Traffickers will seek out certain people depending on what they want to use them for, so traffickers are skilled scammers who look for easy targets, such as labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Human trafficking is often associated with prostitution. If you can recall the definition in the first paragraph, trafficking uses force. In other words, traffickers force a person to perform sexual acts for their own financial gain. Another form of trafficking is labor trafficking. Traffickers will promise immigrants money for their work. However, they receive a meager salary in return, if nothing else. Immigrants are then threatened with violence against themselves or their family back home if they ask for help. There is also another form of trafficking common among immigrants whose victims are forced to work as domestic workers. This means that the trafficker will take away their legal documents and visa to control the victim by forcing them to be maids or nannies. Traffickers seek out vulnerable people, such as those who need money and are desperate for an income. Traffickers often target immigrants and threaten victims with violence. Women are also disproportionately targeted due to sex trafficking and simply because they are victims (Birkenthal). Victims often have mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Victims of sex trafficking face an additional set of risks. For example, sexually transmitted diseases, damage to the reproductive organs and some diseases such as hepatitis B. (Birkenthal). Victims are indirectly denied education because they are forced to work 12 hours a day, this leaves no time for anything other than work. The economy also suffers from human trafficking because people who can work do not and cannot do so. (Birkenthal) Consequently, because the victims were denied education in their youth, future generations will suffer. This leads to future generations being poorly educated and at a disadvantage. (Birkenthal) Trafficking also affects global crime trends. Trafficking is linked to rape, murder and acts of violence. (Birkenthal) Overall, human trafficking has a devastating effect on victims, mentally and physically, regardless of what they are trafficked from.