Illegals Today

"The International Labour Organization (ILO)— the United Nations agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues—estimates that 12.3 million people throughout the world are enslaved in forced labor, bonded labor, sexual servitude, and involuntary servitude at any given time. Millions of these victims are trafficked within their own national borders. According to the State Department’s 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, approximately 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders each year; of these, about 80 percent are female, and up to half are minors. The majority of transnational victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation." (Asian Transnational Organized Crime and its impact on the United States, National Institute of Justice, January 2007)

"In FY 2006, the U.S. Government obligated approximately $74 million to 154 international anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) projects in 70 countries and $28.5 million to 70 domestic anti-TIP projects. These projects are working to ensure human trafficking is prevented, the survivors are protected, and the traffickers are put in jail. They are funded through the coordinated efforts and program funds of the Departments of State, Justice, Labor, Health and Human Services, and USAID. See the corresponding fact sheet at http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/fs/07/83371.htm for a visual overview of the FY 2006 TIP project obligations. " Link