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- 1. Human Trafficking in Hawaii Ella Reynolds Social Entrepreneurship
- 2. Trafficking, Forced Labor, Debt Bondage
- 4. $625,000,000.00 spent on sexual exploitation in Hawaii in 2014
- 5. reality is that they use manipulation, threats and violence to keep these wom leaving … Out of fear or a desire to be cared for, hookers protect their pimp
- 6. Forced Labor is Human Trafficking
- 7. “An indictment released shows six people charged with exploiting 400 Thai nationals.”
- 8. These aliens are smuggled into Hawaii for around $10,000 a person, and then forced to live in unsanitary conditions on fishing vessels docked at Honolulu piers where they are paid as little as $300 a month for full-time commercial fishing work, he said.
- 9. DEBT BONDAGE
- 10. Some 1,000 workers from Laos were trafficked to Oahu via a B-2 visitor visa scam over the last decade, forced to work off their debt to traffickers — as much as $25,000 each, advocates said.
Editor's Notes
- According to a recent study by IMUAlliance, there are approximately 2,652,000 exchanges of sex for money in Hawaii each year. There are an estimated 850 unique sexual providers working at any given time, and between 1,500 to 2,500 providers in the state each year.
- “People see a pimp as someone who obtains customers for a prostitute,” Marcin wrote in the report. “The reality is that they use manipulation, threats and violence to keep these women from leaving … Out of fear or a desire to be cared for, hookers protect their pimps.”
- Some survivors are “mail-order” brides who believe they are going to a new country for marriage, but instead are enslaved. All nationalities and ethnic groups are vulnerable to human trafficking.