claim: "human trafficking is the third-biggest criminal enterprise in the world."
author: amy klobuchar
evidence_1: mar 5, 2015 ... according to the michigan human trafficking task force human trafficking is the  third largest criminal enterprise in the world. this is right behind selling illegal  guns and selling drugs. jane white is the director of the michigan human  trafficking task force. “it is a very lucrative business. you know you can ...
evidence_2: jan 7, 2015 ... the rise in trafficking can be linked to criminals believing they can make money  without getting caught, the seattle post-intelligencer reported. “it's the third- largest and fastest-growing crime worldwide (because it combines) high profit  and low risk,” bradley myles, deputy director of the polaris project, said ...
evidence_3: according to the us state department, 'human traf- ficking is the third largest  criminal enterprise worldwide, generating an estimated $9.5 billion in annual  revenue.' 57. the state department's estimate is just for the rev- enue generated  by trafficking itself. the illicit profits for the traffickers generated by the victims after  they.
evidence_4: mar 1, 2011 ... not only is human sex trafficking slavery but it is big business. it is the fastest- growing business of organized crime and the third-largest criminal enterprise in  the world.2 the majority of sex trafficking is international, with victims taken from  such places as south and southeast asia, the former soviet union, ...
evidence_5: estimates place the number of its domestic and international victims in the  millions, mostly females and children enslaved in the commercial sex industry for  little or no money; human sex trafficking is the fastest-growing business of  organized crime and the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. the  majority of sex ...