An Element of Human Trafficking

    You will say, Wait, wait, you're going too far. But, all I'm saying is that, in a way, stopping that migrant at the border and hauling him off to immigration court, requires an element of human trafficking.

   Even more so, catching the immi at the border, and not wanting him in your state, so you haul him off to San Francisco, or Massachusetts, or Chicago. Doesn't that require a little bit of human-trafficking? Regardless if it meets the legal definition, you are intercepting the immigrant and redirecting him to where you want him to go, not to where he wants. 

   And if you are the immigration court, you sometimes hold the immigrant in a detention center. Can't you see an element of human trafficking in that? If nothing else, you restrict his free movement; you dictate where he can or cannot go. Sometimes, you even slap him in an airplane and send him back to a place that is dangerous to him. He is forced to go to the location you desire, not one he wants. 

   So, no, you are not enslaving him, and you are not capturing her for prostitution. But the word, traffic, like a traffic light, you suppose to control the flow of traffick with your green lights and your red lights. Consider those who we call human traffickers in Mexico. Sometimes, all they do is require a fee to sneak the migrants across the border, or to just get them across Mexico so they can sneak into the U.S. on their own.

   Whenever you intervene in the travel choices of an individual, and use force or deceit to redirect them to a place you want them at, then yes, there is an element of human trafficking in that.