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the vast majority of human trafficking is in ordinary migrant labor not sex work

the typical trafficked person is a construction or farm worker

sex trafficking is overrepresented and sensationalized for its salaciousness and racialized moral panicky undertones

like drug addiction and illegal immigration, human trafficking is a problem entirely caused and worsened by the very policies meant to fight it--state restrictionism, criminalization, policing and incarceration, moralizing and stigma, legalism, paternalism, escalatory punitive force, fixation on 'bad guys' etc